Still, LLMs are extremely powerful pseudo-AI [2] and will bring a pseudo-singularity. But the impact is still scary if a tiny fraction of humans are augmented 1000x. And as better models become exponentially more costly, only the money people will be able to afford the new models. This is a very likely scenario and scares me to the point I dropped all my projects to work on affordable LLM-based tools to make the difference at most 10x instead of 1000x.

To my elder relatives I explain it like: imagine we are farmers in the 17th century and suddenly out of nowere John Deere tractors, combines, etc. become available. But they cost more to run than all you and your fellow farmers have, so only a tiny handful of rich people take over everything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

I don't know ffmpeg but this resonates with my experience with other open source projects.

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FWIW, for the equity part there's a proposal expected to pass for next year: https://www.eu-inc.org/ (but it doesn't address taxes, cross-border employment, or anything significant so it's mostly moot). The main goal is to attract native VCs.

AFAIK it's designed by lawyers and old money, with little to no input from tech entrepreneurs.

I think Evans is completely wrong. There are only 2 truly frontier models. (at least for now). And Anthropic seems to be leaving OpenAI behind so there might be only 1 in the near future. (which is scary/dangerous)

Worst part is Europe was near the top of nuclear and microchips ~30 years ago, and France had bleeding-edge AI.

- Commissioner for Digital and Frontier: Henna Virkkunen (JOURNALIST, experience PR) [1]

- Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy: Stéphane Séjourné (LAWYER, politics, but hey, his mom was a telephone switch operator!) [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henna_Virkkunen

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_S%C3%A9journ%C3%...

inb4 Sacks is MD/lawyer... but he is a Stanford econ graduate, was PayPal COO, is tech VC, etc.

TBF the same used to happen like ~15 years ago at the peak of blogspam. It was only a little bit more work.

Is this just open weights or also open source/data?

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-20260423#pr...

After complaints the cached read is not listed anymore in that page, you have to click one by one. All providers for DeepSeek V4 Flash charge ~$0.02 while DeepSeek provider is $0.0028. For coding this is huge as caching often gets in the range of 90 to 99%. But OpenRouter messes your caching so don't use it. And it seems to be a VC-backed closed middle-man company, not open source or open anything.