We've been hearing this since DeepSeek was released in Jan 2025, and in that time, Anthropic's revenue has grown 100x. And they're still growing like crazy.
So...why hasn't that "essentially free" competition taken them down yet?
We've been hearing this since DeepSeek was released in Jan 2025, and in that time, Anthropic's revenue has grown 100x. And they're still growing like crazy.
So...why hasn't that "essentially free" competition taken them down yet?
Mostly politics combined with nobody actually knowing how to utilize AI yet. We’re just now finding a singular use-case for AI, which is coding. Every other use-case has been a complete dead end. Cool gimmicks for demos, but nothing anyone uses on any regular basis, and definitely not value creating.
Everything is very unstable right now. This is still a very new tool and we’re very much experimenting on a product level.
Tell that to the mathematicians, translators, paralegals, financial analysts, customer support reps, etc, etc.
Virtually all of those have no use for AI.
And, when they do, it’s because AI can write code. Take for example financial analysis. AI sucks ass at that, but it’s good at writing code. You’re using it to write code to do the analysis.
When you ask AI a math question, it’s not answering the question. It’s writing a program to answer the question. Because AI is basically only useful for writing code.
lol, this couldn’t be more false and reductive.
I guess the mathematicians are all freaking out over nothing, since AI can’t do math. Weird how it’s been solving these problems that have stumped humans for decades or more…just coincidence I guess.
I’m also quite sure that when AI is doing someone’s job by writing code to do it, they’ll be comforted that it’s not really doing it, it’s just creating and using tools from scratch to do it.
The desperate grasping for any kind of position to hang onto that AI isn’t already more capable than most experts in many fields is…sad to watch.
I never said AI isn’t capable or more capable than experts, just that it’s only good at writing code. It’s really, really good at coding.
The customer support reps find the AI assistance hamfisted and laughable. AI call transcriptions get big and small details wrong, often leaving out critical details in favor of generic and high level "customer and agent discussed an ongoing issue with their home appliance." AI "let me direct your call" bots are constantly sending people to essentially random departments. AI bots trying to directly be the customer service serve only to piss people off before they get to a human, and I've run into a few businesses that are only staffed by bots.