So we have

Microsoft -> OpenAI (& Inflection AI) Google -> Gemini (and a bit of Anthropic) Amazon -> Anthropic Meta -> Llama

Is big tech good for the startup ecosystem, or are they monopolies eating everything (or both?). To be fair to Google and Meta they came up with a lot of the stuff in the first place, and aren't just buying the competition.

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sangnoir 10 months ago | parent | next [-]

There wouldn't be an LLM startup ecosystem without big tech.

Notable contributions: Nvidia for, well, (gestures at everything), Google for discovering (inventing?) transformers, being early advocates of ML, authoring tensorflow, Meta for Torch and open sourcing Llama, Microsoft for investing billions in OpenAI early on and keeping the hype alive. The last one is a reach, I'm sure Microsoft Research did some cool things I'm unaware of.

	▲	crowcroft 10 months ago \| parent [-]
		You might be right, we don’t know how an alternative reality would have played out though to say if this is the only way (and fastest) way we could have got here.

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gabes 10 months ago | parent | prev [-]

Meta doesn’t buy competition?

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