I wonder if some people don’t understand that saying anymore. “Get that bag” means getting a full money bag. “Left with the bag” or “left holding the bag” means you have an empty money bag that has been emptied by others.

I don't think that's really the same. Not being left with the bag means you know already know the bag is empty and pass it on to someone else before they realize it's empty. Like a pump and dump scheme.

That's not what these companies are doing. They're not trying to leave investors holding the empty bag. They are legitimately trying to turn profitable and corner the market.

That's if they don't decide the best course of action is to launch them into LEO lol. If they do (they will--they're that stupid), the infrastructure will burn up in less than five years.

Yeah, chips are more of a perishable good than any kind of durable infrastructure, and at the end of the day, the models themselves have no durable value because information is never truly scarce, regardless of how they try to make us pretend it is or poison the well with lies. There's no magic solution to making LLMs actual AGI or even effective tools outside of their narrow scope. Not only that, the way they're using it is extremely reckless, deeply inefficient, and supremely cost intensive, on a level that makes the Manhattan Project look wholesome. There isn't going to be a "last man standing" to win, it's just going to go up like flash powder and take everyone in the dogpile with it.