Explanation of the joke: Nebius is a Yandex reskin. Prior to the war, Russia probably had a more developed IT sector than the EU combined, even without "global talent" (Indians, Chinese) that Europeans rely on for basic functioning. But yes we gave up on AI.

Alisa is crazy dumb it's very sad. I mean, yeah Russia isn't allowed to have GPUs, and at least I get music and basic voice controls for ≈nothing, but it's like below 0.6B in LLM terms. Also instantly discards context. What could have been… They can train DS-style models btw

@AIBlancos "Yandex clones" are better than originals and anything Europe has done

@teortaxesTex I don’t think there’s any measure by which the IT sector would’ve been ‘more developed’ (Nokia and Ericsson alone would top most Russian blue chips), unless strictly limited to consumer-facing apps (there EU clones of US apps went extinct by ~2012 or so).

@teortaxesTex russia's it was mostly yandex clones on western stacks with talent already leaking out while eu still files more ai patents per year

@teortaxesTex Well, before the war/covid the EU wasn’t really that dependent on overseas talent either. The EU/US difference in salaries was there already in the 2010s, but less dramatic than now, and US big techs didn’t have that many offices in the EU -> fewer intracompany transfers.

@teortaxesTex > They're probably 20 years away technologically from the likes of Nebius.

Unironically true

@teortaxesTex 😭 Don’t own them like that teo

@teortaxesTex How dare you insult EU IT sector when it has the largest mp3 player company in the world

@karolkarpinski Yeah the EU has actual hardware companies. But that's not necessary nor, it seems, useful for making an impact in LLMs

@teortaxesTex Europe doesn't have to develop its own IT most of EU companies run on US infrastructure, hardware and software, I would have preferred if they did develop their own stuff.

@teortaxesTex So many bad takes under the original post quoted, cringe.

@teortaxesTex 悲伤😞

@teortaxesTex @AIBlancos http://Yandex.Cloud was joke and is joke now (even comparing to OVH\Hetzner, let alone AWS\Azure). Nebius is good neocloud, has nothing to do with Russia

@teortaxesTex >Behind in technologies >USA doesn't sell chips >BROOO U ARE SO BEHIND! U don't plugging NVIDIA nvl72 straight into your gas station bro ngmi bro guvie upp

@teortaxesTex Though many EU and Swiss-based software companies, including extremely successful ones, are owned by Russians or people of Russian ancestry and until the war maintained offshoring/backoffice shops in Russia, so it also depends on how you classify those!

@teortaxesTex 这智障程度简直浪费硬件资源

@teortaxesTex 这AI啥时候才能进步啊

@teortaxesTex 现在的智商真像回到了史前时代简直没眼看

@teortaxesTex 这AI是真不行啊