• Godort@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    The pathological need to find something to use LLMs for is so bizzare.

    Venture capital dumped so much money into the tech without understanding the full scope of what it was capable of. Now they’re so in so deep that they desperately NEED to find something profitable it can do, otherwise they’ll lose the farm.

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      6 days ago

      Firefox has little financial motivation for this, though?

      Other than getting “AI” investor money, if that’s the plan… But otherwise it just feels like they’re following a meme.

      • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 days ago

        90% of their cash flow comes from google to be the default search engine - they are probably trying to open up alternative routes of funding to reduce the risk, since it’s not guaranteed that the money will keep coming due to the current lawsuit.

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          6 days ago

          Right, I sympathize with that.

          …But also it’s ridiculous. Like why should including a feature with “AI” in it get them VC money? Even if that’s kinda reality?

          TBH they should just become a contributor to llama.cpp and market that somehow.