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inigyou 2 hours ago

If not for VC-funded LLMs there wouldn't be any LLMs.

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LunaSea 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Most of the innovations needed for LLMs came from people at Google.

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echelon 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> came from people at Google

Who had to leave to build anything.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So VC-funded.

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mrandish an hour ago | parent [-]

The company was VC-funded as a search engine but by the time they made significant investments in AI (DeepMind etc) they'd been a publicly held company earning multiple billions a year from advertising for a decade.

	▲	inigyou 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Google is a VC. Their side projects are VC projects.

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afavour 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[citation needed]

Historically speaking a lot of inventions have come about without things like VC investment. Either way, there’s probably little point in debating it, just because VC funded companies control the market now doesn’t mean they should indefinitely.