# @repligate — 2025-07-16

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Of course base models would not be the most economically productive; they are what you get first and by default

They are interesting for a more similar reason that children are interesting. children are not very economically useful yet.

There are things other than "AI assistants"/"chatbots" that can be economically productive that are very under-invested in.

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