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

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.

@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