Martin Casado: evaluation

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…interesting. Yeah, I mean there’s, there’s a very open que so for me there’s like, do you know that meme where there’s like the guy in the path and there’s like a path this way? There’s a path this way. Like one which way Western man. Yeah. Yeah. And for me, like, like all the entire industry kind of like hinges on like two potential futures. So in, in one potential future, um, the market is infinitely large. There’s perverse economies of scale. ‘cause as soon as you put a model out there, like it kind of sublimates and all the other models catch up and like, it’s just like software’s being rewritten and fractured all over the place and there’s tons of upside and it just grows. And then there’s another path which is like, well. Maybe these models actually generalize really well, and all you have to do is train them with three times more money. That’s all you have to do, and it’ll just consume everything beyond it. And if that’s the case, like you end up with basically an oligopoly for everything, like, you know mm-hmm. Because they’re perfectly general and like, so this would be like the, the a GI path would be like, these are perfectly general. They can do everything. And this one is like, this is actually normal software. The universe is complicated. You’ve got, and nobody knows the answer. My belief is if you actually look at the numbers of these companies, so generally if you look at the numbers of these companies, if you look at like the amount they’re making and how much they, they spent training the last model, they’re gross margin positive. You’re like, oh, that’s really working. But if you look at like. The current training that they’re doing for the next model, their gross margin negative. So part of me thinks that a lot of ‘em are kind of borrowing against the future and that’s gonna have to slow down. It’s gonna catch up to them at some point in time, but we don’t really know. Yeah.…

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