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Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 23, 2024

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If LLMs have moved trillions of dollars on the stock market, they must be doing something pretty substantial.

OpenAI is apparently bringing in billions in revenue. Apparently character.ai gets 1/5 of Google's inference requests (there are a lot of lonely people out there).

https://research.character.ai/optimizing-inference/

Yes, even less tech-savvy investors have realized this is a big thing.

One, "revenue" and "investment" are not the same thing.

Two, your reasoning only holds if one assumes that stock markets are rational. History would seem to indicate that they are not. See the tulip craze.