The big money is going to the OpenAI/Anthropic types producing foundation models that have to raise billions on a regular basis. This is money that would normal be spread across the startup ecosystem instead of concentrated in a handful of massive companies. When it finally hits IPO, I'd bet that you see it start to get freed up for new investments
Just to drive the point home, in 2019 the total VC market was ~$300 billion. To date, roughly $235 billion is tied up in just OpenAI ($168b) and Anthropic ($67b)
I think you missed the parents point. They were saying they don't have the resources for proper defense, my guess is parent would agree about their offensive capabilities
- music apps and gapless playback: basically all major car manufacturer software is trash, I'd challenge you to find a car software that's better than Tesla
- stretches without superchargers: to be clear, not stretches without places you can charge the car, right? Just places where Tesla's fast charging stations exist. Tesla has an order of magnitude more of these type of stations than any other similar network
- Service centers: I have no knowledge here. From how silly the other arguments are, I kind of assume that this isn't fully true, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say it's true. Not awesome, definitely an area they need to get better in. But lets not forget, major manufacturer service centers are not exactly know for being quick/good/cheap
- Color options: I guess it would be cool to have truly custom colors, but basically every mainstream car ever has had a limited set of colors to choose from, and individual dealerships almost never have every color of that limited set available
And the answer is to have them become like a normal car company? That's not an industry thats exactly excelling at the very points you're bringing up. You're obviously free to have your take, but we are at peak "Elon is the wurst". Hard to take this stuff seriously
> - music apps and gapless playback: basically all major car manufacturer software is trash, I'd challenge you to find a car software that's better than Tesla
Easy: _any_ car with Android Auto or CarPlay. Including a 10-year-old Toyota.
Yeah, it really came from scratching my own itch in wanting a quicker/easier way to think through different companies offers. They always present them in slightly different ways
I really like the idea of a side by side comparison. I'll build that out next!
Just like writing normal software: have it work on different parts of the codebase that don't have overlap, or do the work sequentially. AI is a time compressor, but it's still constrained by the same problems as normal engineers.
If one task changes the button to green, and the other one changes it to red at the same time, something will have to decide how to reconcile that difference
I read this book because I misunderstood a recommendation and thought it was a business book talking about how companies get people to forget negative information (e.g. dump news on Friday etc). Boy was that first chapter a wild ride until I figured out it was not in fact a business book
I wouldn't be surprised if there's an SCP that's about businesses using antimemetic anomalies to bury bad news. Hell, there's an SCP about a bank that makes deals with devils at industrial scale.
> ...the new Gemini "replacement" is still by all accounts a disaster
Small nit: the initial rollout of Gemini was a dumpster fire. It is now quite good. For my use cases, I can't get any other current LLM to give me better results than Gemini 2.0 Flash. It's also free
But even that kind of proves your point, right? Pretend you 100% believe me without verifying. That means in a year or two the winner has transferred between ~3 companies. This is not a cheap mantle to keep passing around. The AI wars are going to get heated over the next year or two
I'm happy to see this because it's my experience with Gemini too. Google did terribly with Bard (clearly an emergency launch to say "Hey, we're here too!"), Gemini 1.0 and even Gemini 1.5 was only decent in the top 'Pro' tier.
Gemini 2.0 has been a huge step forward and I'm using Flash daily at work for coding. Very liberal limits and much cheaper than OpenAI too. I'm easily in the $0 tier as I don't exceed 15 requests per minute or 1500 per day. I use it with Chatbox AI and my Google Gemini API key.
They've been a bit late to the party though. But the fumbling from Amazon and Apple has opened an opportunity to STILL be ahead and launch the first powerful AI assistant this year. It's no doubt one of the reasons they developed Gemini 2.0 as an agentic AI and I'm only waiting for hardware refreshes now.
Just to be clear, are we talking about the Gemini based Assistant replacement? The last time I checked that version couldn't even set reminders or timers, so if that's improved since then I may actually try switching.
And yes, agreed that this space is very fragile right now for all the companies.
You have to remember, HN is fully supported by YCombinator, and has a huge leg up on any possible similar sites. There will always be content thats encouraged to be posted here first from YC startups, and it will always be a valuable PR asset for those companies.
It doesn't have any pressures to make money, in fact it's basically a free place for PR and advertising jobs for portfolio companies
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