There's a shift happening. OpenAI is shutting down Sora, presumably to focus on enterprise offerings. Walmart and Disney are cutting ties with OpenAI. Sam's about to get sued by Microsoft.
Conversely,
Nvidia's NemoClaw seems like a legitimate effort towards on-device AI. Apple's M5 chips are decked out with new AI technology, hinting that they might do something in the local AI space.
I think cloud-based AI is cooked. It's too expensive. The market is shifting. Or I'm high on my own supply.
I say this not as someone who is pro-local AI but someone who is against the cloud. And against this sort of mass power grab enacted by the hyperscalers over the past five years.
It appears like they're failing. And short of passing legislation to codify a monopoly of some sort, their vision of our digital lives are not coming to fruition.
I need to write a follow up to this. It might even be hopeful
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
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