I don't know if they will never go public,but their business is clearly not profitable as it is today.
I'm a heavy user but the moment they stop subsidizing I will pick something else because I know how damn expensive it actually is (my usage is ~4k usd/month, but paying 200 in their max plan).
The funny thing is the govt would prob prefer all the resources were concentrated (e.g. across MSFT and Alphabet) rather than diversified across many firms in a head to head fight vs China.
So therefore theres no argument to keep anthropic and OAI afloat if they cannot do so on their own.
Interesting how that whole conversation about "AGI tomorrow" completely disappeared and it's all about making money now.
I'm a fan of claude and I have been using their top tier plans because it's so damn cheap comparing to my real usage. They will have to stop subsidizing this at some point, and people (include me) will flee. What they are gonna do?
A historical reminder: the Nazis were highly effective at persecuting Jews in the Netherlands precisely because of the country's meticulous population registry.
You never know who will be in power tomorrow. The convenience of a centralized system today does not outweigh the catastrophic danger of that system in the wrong hands in the future. Specially nowadays.
Not everything runs on paid models. Claude and Codex are frontier models, but some people have much higher usage needs and finite budgets that force them to self-host. And if you're self-hosting, you're very likely running a Chinese model
What do you expect from a person other than the generalizations they see from the experiences they have had...? What 'evidence' could possibly be given other than extensive anecdotes?
The article presents hypothesis as fact with insufficient science. I have no problem discussing speculation, but if the author wants to promote their claims to any more than that I would want to see more journalism.
I got it off kleinanzeigen, its a ebay-like site (but mostly 'pick it up yourself' instead of delivery). Looking at it right now, i do see multiple sales for 850-900. I did spot the 750 one after frequenting the site for a week or two, so it may be a bit of a 'better than average' deal, and it seems most are in the 1k euro range, but there are a handful available under.
As of writing this, it shows 24 offers between 700 and 950.
I once killed the installation of a work laptop, with such an approach.
I used an external SSD disk to run Linux from it, and one day whatever happened while shutting down the OS, killed the partition on the internal drive.
Thus making me having to request a fresh installation of everything, and losing some stuff in the process, as that killed the cryptographic key for the disk as well.
Can you talk more about it? So an issue during shutdown running from the external drive destroyed a partition of a internal drive?
I can see power issues corrupting the external drive (and I can live with that), but I'm wondering what went wrong in your case.
I'm not sure running the whole thing from a live-boot (which is kind of the point of the topic, different from a external installation which is what I use) would have prevented anything.
I don't know if they will never go public,but their business is clearly not profitable as it is today.
I'm a heavy user but the moment they stop subsidizing I will pick something else because I know how damn expensive it actually is (my usage is ~4k usd/month, but paying 200 in their max plan).
I guess lot of people will do the same.