Will VincentOpenAI acquiring Astral is sending shockwaves through the Python and AI programming communities.
I believe it opens up a 4th way to solve a historic problem: how to fund open source.
Charlie Stross@wsvincent What happens to Astral when—not if—the LLM market bubble pops and OpenAI goes bust?
(My guess: within 12 months, possibly a lot sooner. The Gulf crisis is going to crash semiconductor manufacturing in Taiwan and SK by choking off the supply of He for fab lines, never mind the LNG strikes. At which point, no new Nvidia NPUs.)
@cstross They will benefit from the federal bailout of OpenAI I imagine.
@wsvincent If things break as bad as I expect the feds won't be bailing *anyone* out—it'll be far worse than 2008, more like 1929 in severity.