Again, silicon was the first one that people figured out how to mass produce. Just because it was cheaper, doesn’t mean that a new material put into mass production won’t get cheaper. Look at the history of literally any technology that became popular, and you’ll see this to be the case.
If you look at the price of silicon chips from their inception to now, you can see how how much it’s come down. If a new material starts being used, the exact same thing will happen. Silicon was the first substrate people figured out how to use to make transistors, and it continued to be used because it was cheaper to improve the existing process than to invent a new one from scratch. Now that we’re hitting physical limits of what you can do with the material, the logic is changing. A chip that can run an order of magnitude faster will also use less power. These are both incredibly desirable properties in the age of AI data centres and mobile devices.
The cost invariably goes down as production of any new technology ramps up though.
My heart bleeds for them.
It’s only a matter of time until somebody figures out how to mass produce a computing substrate that will make silicon look like vacuum tubes. We don’t need to discover any new physics here. Numerous substrates have been shown to outperform silicon by at least an order of magnitude in the lab. This is simply a matter of allocating resources in a sustained fashioned towards scaling these proofs of concept into mass production, something planned economies happen to excel at.
While these policies obviously harm Americans as well, their impact on Canada shouldn’t be dismissed. The reality is that the percentage of the US economy that’s dependent on trade with Canada is far smaller than the reverse. The harm to Canadian exports would be quite significant. Of course, the only rational thing for Canada to do here is to suck up short term pain and continue diversifying. The fact that we allowed our economy to become so dependent on trade with the US is the reason we’re in this mess in the first place.
and cheap GPUs :)
The secret sauce here is how the model was trained. Typically, coding models are trained on static snapshots of code from GitHub and other public sources. They basically learn what good code looks like at a single point in time. IQuest did something totally different. They trained their model using entire commit history of repositories.
This approach added a temporal component to training, allowing the model to learn how code actually changes from one commit to the next. It saw how entire projects evolve over months and even years. It learned the patterns in how developers refactor and improve code, and the real world workflows of how software gets built. Instead of just learning what good code looks like, it learned how code evolves.
Coding is inherently an iterative process where you make an attempt at a solution, and then iterate on it. As you gain a deeper understanding of the problem, you end up building on top of existing patterns and evolving the codebase over time. IQuest model gets how that works because it was trained on that entire process.
Aww look at you still malding your color revolution failed.
The whole AI as a service business model is cooked now. My prediction is that even stuff like coding will soon work well enough with local models. There are going to be very few cases to justify paying subscription for AI services either for companies or individuals. And this stuff is moving so incredibly fast. For example https://dev.to/yakhilesh/china-just-released-the-first-coding-ai-of-2026-and-its-crushing-everything-we-know-3bbj
Just another in a long series of cautionary tales of people aligning with the empire.
Yes, you’re right, Russia brutally punishes people who tell the truth about a genocide it’s involved in by starving them in prison. Oh wait, my bad, that’s the UK regime doing these things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Prisoners_for_Palestine_hunger_strike
You know this is one of the differences I notice in the mindset between people living under capitalism in the west, and people living under socialism in China. The former tend to be very pessimistic about technological progress because the first thought is always ‘how will this be used against me,’ and Chinese people are generally excited about new technology because their thought is ‘can’t wait to see how this will improve my life going forward.’
Gets called out on being a hypocrite, starts braying about tribalism. Peak liberal intellect in action here.
Are you using a metaphor to describe the contents of your mind here?
I see liberals are manifesting again
you get a gold star for memorizing every propaganda talking point
Can you point out to a single thing in the article that’s incorrect, or you’re just having a fit because it’s a domain your state media taught you not to like?
What I keep explaining to you here is that silicon is not inevitable, and that it’s obviously possible to make other substrates work and bring costs down. I’ve also explained to you why it makes no business sense for companies already invested in silicon to do that. The reason China has a big incentive is because they don’t currently have the ability to make top end chips. So, they can do moonshot projects at state level, and if one of them succeeds then they can leapfrog a whole generation of tech that way.
You just keep repeating that silicon is the best material for the job without substantiating that in any way. Your whole argument is tautological, amounting to saying that silicon is widely used and therefore it’s the best fit.