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Casado says he was misquoted and walked this back: https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1990462245541982546 https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1990462245541982546
by awllau 2mo ago
Casado says he was misquoted and walked this back: https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1990462245541982546 https://x.com/martin_casado/status/1990462245541982546
"Well, not quite. I'd say 20-30% use open source. Of those I'd say 80% use Chinese based models. So closer to 16-24%."
Reads pretty differently.
- apparent 2mo agoWow, that kind of undermines the entire premise of the piece. It also makes much more sense. Thanks for digging that up!
- JamesBarney 2mo agoThis should really be the #1 comment on this post.
- kbar13 2mo agoyeah and the gap between "use open source" and "use open source as their primary model" is probably p large
- zmmmmm 2mo agoyes... I think for startups there's a strong desire to demonstrate technical independence - there's a strong smell with looking like a wrapper on Anthropic or OpenAI. With an open model you can weave a story where you are exercising differentiating knowhow by deploying or tuning models yourself.
- JimsonYang 2mo agoMisquote? Or selective hearing for the story headline? Thats literally a 4x difference there