Assoc. Prof. of Strategy, U Toronto Rotman |
Chief Economist, CDL Toronto | Co-Founder, AllDayTA |
Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps (especially now)
If the houses you could rent improved every six months as a result of billions of capex, and ones you owned had to be manually repaired, this might not be a good idea. Internally "built" AI (e.g., finetune of an OS model that's already out of date) is not a competitive advantange
NEW: Thomson Reuters wanted to rely less on Claude. So it built its own AI model off Alibaba's Qwen.
TR's CTO says using frontier labs for intelligence, instead of building on open source, is like renting a house.