this kind of story is compelling to believe but this only makes sense if certain labs have SOTA capabilities that differentiate them - and are enduring the observed reality is that any advantage a lab develops - is quickly caught up to

our vcs hate when i say we're built to be easy to switch away from but if you don't own your own storage, don't own your compute, don't own your business logic - you're bound to the tokenomics of a single data platform, and scaling agentic analytics across your org gets brutal i think people are gonna be surprised how much demand shows up for the opposite great convo w/ @petesoder from Zero Prime

these current FDE companies are mostly all doing chatgpt enablements they exist as long as there is appetite to pay someone to teach you how to spend more on tokens kinda like mortgage brokers in 2007 - paid to teach people how to buy more houses

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based on the contents of the BIRD benchmark, this is a HUGE self report that this team leaked the test data / overfit to the answer set that or they're p-hacking those questions are extremely "up to interpretation"