Does it though? It arguably illustrates how the economics of building custom specialized small sub-frontier LLMs and building an service around them that can easily be replicated by open tools wrapping either frontier LLMs for equal or better quality or personally-controlled open LLMs for privacy doesn't work, especially in a market where privacy is a selling point.
But I think that it is dubious whether that is a good proxy for “the economics of AI” broadly.
Which I am not saying are good—I just don't think Character.ai has much probative value on the broad question on way or the other.
But I think that it is dubious whether that is a good proxy for “the economics of AI” broadly.
Which I am not saying are good—I just don't think Character.ai has much probative value on the broad question on way or the other.