the obvious difference is the massive scale of data and compute required to develop and evolve these models, and the costs they impose on those building them.

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traverseda 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Smaller budgets, slower improvement, less risk. They're not entitled to profits if that business model isn't sustainable. They're not entitled to a change in IP laws to protect their business model. They're not entitled to growing that fast.

	▲	milkshakes 34 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		who are you talking about? again, my question is concerned with the "second class labs" and the sustainability of the distillation-as-a-service model.