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Comment Britannica is an AI company itself now (Score 4, Interesting) 26

They are pushing back against competition from Open AI and others, but not for the reason many think:

While it still offers an online edition of its encyclopedia, as well as the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Britannica’s biggest business today is selling online education software to schools and libraries, the software it hopes to supercharge with AI. ...

Britannica’s CEO Jorge Cauz also told the Times about the company’s Britannica AI chatbot, which allows users to ask questions about its vast database of encyclopedic knowledge that it collected over two centuries from vetted academics and editors. The company similarly offers chatbot software for customer service use cases.

Britannica told the Times it is expecting revenue to double from two years ago, to $100 million.

https://gizmodo.com/encycloped...

They are pinning their future on providing AI products trained on their encyclopedias and research notes, putting them in somewhat direct competition with the other AI companies.

Comment Re: yes obviously (Score 1) 112

by EvilSS (#66040568) Attached to: Don't Get Used To Cheap AI
You random AC didnâ(TM)t say shit. Or you playimg game trying to bump your other AC post. Anyway. $2,700 is the api cost for a full max plan. Let that sink in. Even with profit that is a massive gap. So no. Not $500. Or $1000. Closer to $1700-$2000. You are also grossly underestimating how devs use these.

now read my sig

Comment Re:um (Score 1) 112

by EvilSS (#66040140) Attached to: Don't Get Used To Cheap AI
Problem is that $200 Claude Max, if you calculate what it would cost to do the same thing via the PAYGO API, the difference is staggering. Like over 10x difference. It would cost you thousands a month without the plan. Anthropic HAS to be losing money on those. Even users who are not maxing their usage out each month, unless they are using only 15-20%, are going to be using more than what their subscription costs Anthropic to provide. Eventually they will need to either find a way to drastically lower their inference costs or jack the cost of the plans up.

Comment Re:slashvert (Score 1) 326

Because anything Apple generates engagement/comments on here. Also it's all over the other tech sites right now. Not like there is much else going on in the tech space right now anyway. RAM/SSD/HDD and soon CPU prices are being spiked by AI, no new GPUs until at least next year, probably 2028. Everything is kind of meh in the hardware space right now.

Comment Re:GPS receivers could be highly resistant (Score 2) 61

Unless it originates from the sky (which it won't)

What makes you think that? Both the US and Russia have airborne EWS systems that can spoof or jam GPS. Speaking of spoofing, that's the most common issue these days, not just straight-up signal jamming. Spoofing is much harder to deal with since the signals look legitimate.

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