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points by hypfer 4 days ago | 0 comments
Of course IBM - the guys that sell you mainframes - would be saying this.

This is a win though. But not for the reasons people might think it is.

It is a win because it's a massive player now countering the new (temporary) behemoths. With all the leverage, budget and connections.

And contrary to the AI Labs, IBM isn't just that one SV rockstar dude, but a whole org with tons of people. Meaning that they're going to be far closer to the baseline of sane humans just from averaging alone.

[–] ggeorgovassilis 4 days ago
The guy that sells mainframes also gives away the Granite models for free. I've found them to be quite capable in content retrieval and long-running workflows, even (or especially?) the small ones.
[–] le-mark 4 days ago
> And contrary to the AI Labs, IBM isn't just that one SV rockstar dude, but a whole org with tons of people

IBM of today is a hallow corpse of what it was. The hardware business remains but they’ve mastered extracting rent from imprisoned customers long ago. No sane person should willing go into business with them, same as Oracle.

[–] hypfer 4 days ago
Yes, but that was not the point I was making.

They are many people and none of them are in some sort of AI death cult like the EA polycule.

They're not suddenly good guys. They're just sane