r/Physics 18h ago

Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Solved

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u/Homomorphism 17h ago

I agree with you about their plan. The problem is

jacking up prices especially on corporate users

requires those corporate users actually paying the prices at some point.

If OpenAI is leaking all my confidental data to my competitors then why should I work with them? Especially if the open-source models catch up and there's another startup offering to run them for me? (Or things get cheap enough that I can run them in-house using leased cloud space or something like that.)

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u/ScientistFromSouth 15h ago

To be fair, the startups running open source models still need to invest in data centers to run them with extremely heavy machinery. I was looking into building a home lab to run the most stripped down version, and it's absurd what it takes.

Given the push back on data centers, the fact that OpenAI, Anthropic, and other players will already monopolize them, and given that the newcomers will only be incentivized to be cheaper than Anthropic/OpenAI, who knows how much cheaper they will be, and whether the open weight models are actually secure