Perhaps more to the point, you can also use the filesystem view and edit the config files manually rather than by GUI magic if you prefer (or if you need to diagnose a problem in a solution resulting from different projects having people do different magic GUI things, because comparing files side by side is much easier.)
As a german trust me, the regulations are a good thing. When I drive at night, there are so many cars in oncoming traffic that dazzle you with their led headlights
What's worse is that I can't seem to find a way to let Google know where I actually live (as opposed to where I am temporarily traveling, what country my currently inserted SIM card is from etc). And apparently there is no way to do this at all without owning an Android device!
Apple at least lets me change this by moving my iTunes/App Store account, which is its own ordeal and far from ideal, but at least there's a defined process: Tell us where you think you live, provide a form of payment from that place, maybe we'll believe you.
Yeah Google aggressively uses geolocation throughout their services, regardless of your language settings. The flipside of that is that it's really easy to access the latest Gemini or whatever by just using a VPN.
Wait, does that mean if I subscribe to Gemini Pro in country A where it's available (e.g. the US) but travel to Europe, I can't use it?
I'm really frustrated by Google's attitude of "we know better where you are than you do". People travel sometimes and that's not the same thing as moving!
I really, really hate all of these geo heuristics. Sure, don't advertise services to people outside of your market, I get that. Do ask for a payment method from that country too to provide your market-specific pricing if you must.
But once I'm a paying customer, I want to use the thing I'm paying for from where I am without jumping through ridiculous hoops!
The worst variant of this I've seen is when you can neither use nor cancel the subscription from outside a supported market.
To be clear, I didn't pay for any of them. I just signed up for early access to every product that uses some form of ML that can remotely be called "AI"...
Once I got accepted, some of them work outside of the US and some don't
> Whether Google has the stomach to put these models out publicly without neutering their creativity or their existing business model is a different discussion.
Google has a serious GPU (well, TPU) build out, and the fact that they're able to train moe models on it means there aren't any technical barriers preventing them from competing at the highest levels
Is there any meaningful valuation on OpenAI? It’s not for sale, there is no market.
Google … has no ability to commercialize anything. Their only commercial successes are ads and YouTube. Doing deceptive launches and flailing around with Gemini isn’t helping their product prospects. I wouldn’t take a bet between open ai and anyone, but I also wouldn’t take a bet on Google succeeding commercially on anything other than pervasive surveillance and adware.
> Is there any meaningful valuation on OpenAI? It’s not for sale, there is no market.
Its shares are already for sale on private markets for accredited investors and for a valuation of over $100BN lead by Thrive Capital.
> Google … has no ability to commercialize anything.
Absolute nonsense.
So Google Cloud, Android (Play Store) are not already commercialized? You well know that they are.
> Doing deceptive launches and flailing around with Gemini isn’t helping their product prospects.
Gemini already caught up to (and surpassed) GPT-4V. What is your point?
> I wouldn’t take a bet between open ai and anyone, but I also wouldn’t take a bet on Google succeeding commercially on anything other than pervasive surveillance and adware.
OpenAI's greatest competitor is Google DeepMind which has the advantage of Google's infrastructure to scale up their models quickly and they have direct access to Google's billions. OpenAI cannot afford to make mistakes or delay anything and a single mistake can cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. The majority of the investment from Microsoft is in Azure credits and not in dollars. [0]
But what we know for certain is that at some point in the early 21st century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.
