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It is not enough that open source must win. Anthropic, Google and OpenAI must fail.

For inference content covered by OpenRouter’s Zero Data Retention policy, we do not retain prompts or responses after processing, except

This sounds like RL. Iteration with diminishing marginal returns.

If you automated the post-training I can see that you would progress faster, but just reach the same limit sooner.

Yes. $1.505bn at a $17.5bn valuation and can't even make a reliable usage page that does not constantly bug out displaying token usage.

They don't care. The same as Openrouter: $7bn valuation, that service feels to me like about 10 devs total.

They don't care, because it's not about providing a product. Fireworks is about inference as much as a mob nightclub is about drinks.

Tracking meta capex, parameters and AA intelligence there are diminishing marginal returns.

Diminishing, as in progress gets harder and eventually stops.

Assume that the Claude unreleased takes 11 days with one agent. The Claude 5.2 takes 30 hours with 1,000 agents. The Claude unreleased used 264 units of compute, but the Claude 5.2 used 30,000.

So, it did accomplish the task faster with less intervention, but the ratio of cost to improvement is 13:1.

If we can't produce a method to break out of a linear improvement in LLM technology (ie RSI), the LLM is doomed.

I am yet to see someone explain what the RSI will be or why it will happen.

Huh. I would reach for "reptilian". Maybe that's too kind: "serpentine".

It is just one symptom of a push for corporate-controlled infrastructure.

A single unencrypted point of access is the dream for watching and controlling your life.

That is the centralized API in a nutshell, a single unencrypted point of access.

Isn't it crazy that ai companies have private inference but still spy on the consumers.

I don't think it's far fetched to say the reason the subscription discounts $1k of API to $200, is that the data is worth $800.

Excellent, since the data says so little, the company will not be needing it.

Revealed preference.