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Lol at "On secondary markets, investors have propelled the company to a $1.5 billion valuation."
by geori 23d ago
Lol at "On secondary markets, investors have propelled the company to a $1.5 billion valuation."
- jasonjmcghee 23d agotypo? or did an editor see the original and say "trillion must be a typo"
- irthomasthomas 23d agoI imagine the logprob of b is much greater than t in this context for most models. So 'trillion' gets corrected to the more likely 'billion'.
- zarzavat 23d agoFreudian slip.
- womitt 23d agoIt's for the second grade htf algos
- mimischi 23d agoMaybe the editor is from Germany DACH, or similar?). A trillion is a billion in that language.
- BoingBoomTschak 23d agoCue the Dr. Evil.
- busyant 22d agoFor my amusement, I recently asked ChatGPT whether OpenAI and Anthropic were worth their proposed valuations or whether they'd be "kneecapped" by the Chinese models etc. It gave me a long, detailed explanation which boiled down to, "Maybe Anthropic will be worth the 1T market cap if xyz happen, but unless something fundamentally changes w/ OpenAI, they are NOT worth anywhere near 1T" Here's a quote from ChatGPT: "And if I had $1 million that had to be invested today in either OpenAI at $852B or Anthropic at $965B, with a 5–7 year lockup: I'd put the entire $1 million into Anthropic. Not 60/40. 100/0 Anthropic."
- lukan 23d agoFixed it seems.
- flohofwoe 23d agoMost likely a typo (fixed by now), but in some (most?) non-English languages billion is the correct word for 10^12 instead of 10^9, usually the error happens when translating from English though, not into English.
- cassianoleal 23d ago> billion is the correct word for 10^12 instead of 10^9 Is it? In Portuguese it's thousand, million, billion, trillion... (Milhar, milhão, bilhão, trilhão, ...)
- flohofwoe 23d agoApparently it's different between Portugal and Brazil? (e.g. Portugal => long-scale, Brazil => short-scale - but that's just what ChatGPT is telling me). E.g. maybe it's more of a 'Europe-except-UK vs Americas' thing?
- cassianoleal 19d agoTIL, I wasn't aware Portugal differed. I wonder about the other Portuguese-speaking countries. They generally align closer to Portugal and Brazil is the outlier (though it accounts for ~78% of Portuguese speakers!) so I suspect it's the case here as well.
- fallingbananna 23d agoHere is a list of languages that use "milliard": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milliard#Descendants https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milliard#Descendants
- Hardwired8976 23d agoYeah, in German for example.
- elorant 23d agoSame in Greek. It's "ekatommyrio" with a prefix of the order of magnitude "dis" from two for billions, "tris" from three for trillions, "tetrakis" from four for quadrillions and so on.