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Though I feel this is far from over. They're all still valued billions. There's still investor money coming in. And the next dozens of datacenters in the pipeline. They have enough money to invest in power plants and all kinds of stuff. Companies still have those silly rules that you as a programmer are supposed to burn tokens. And now the AI companies are slowly starting to find ways to become profitable. I think it's still early days. And we haven't yet seen the large scale displacement of human work. And autonomous robots are also still to come. I'd attest them a chance to work in warehouses etc... So... I don't see the course changing any time soon.
we've yet to see a single one of them be profitable, and if they try to leverage their existing subscriber base for that they will crash hard. the valuation is pure fantasy, based on the same 10 companies all "investing" in each other with the same lump of pretend money like a financial hot potato. and last i looked something like 37% of the american pension system's investments are in the ml industry. the last time that happened it had global repercussions.