Of course R1 wasn't written by AI. But the point is that in the past, such high quality software could only be written in a concentrated location - SV - because of computing resources and people who could use those computing resources.
Then in the 00s, the computing resources became widely available. The bottleneck was the people who could build interesting things. Imagine a third world country with access to AWS but no access to developers who could build something meaningful.
With these models, now these geographically distributed companies can build similarly high quality stuff.
R1 IS the example of something that previously only could be built in the bowels of large SV corporations.
Then in the 00s, the computing resources became widely available. The bottleneck was the people who could build interesting things. Imagine a third world country with access to AWS but no access to developers who could build something meaningful.
With these models, now these geographically distributed companies can build similarly high quality stuff.
R1 IS the example of something that previously only could be built in the bowels of large SV corporations.