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> Hopefully the API cost is reasonable or free with limits If the model was open source you could have an API market where providers competed to build the mos
by nexuist 5y ago
> Hopefully the API cost is reasonable or free with limits
If the model was open source you could have an API market where providers competed to build the most economic service just like virtual machine companies do with Linux. If there is only one API then everyone is stuck with them and just has to hope they don't change the prices.
There is practical concern for researchers within the possibility that what costs you $0.05 to run today will cost you $500 tomorrow (see Google Maps API for when this actually happened).
- samhw 5y agoIt seems like quite a simple calculus to me: if ever the cost of reasonably using the API exceeds the cost of buying and operating a machine with 350GB RAM, then people will switch to the latter. Either way, I don't see how adding a new option could make anyone's situation worse.
- MauranKilom 5y ago> the cost of reasonably using the API exceeds the cost of buying and operating a machine with 350GB RAM Capex and opex of these two are quite different.