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How is this free exactly? The cost to running a quality model is certainly not zero or even cheap. Is this explained anywhere?
by gkfasdfasdf 4y ago
How is this free exactly? The cost to running a quality model is certainly not zero or even cheap. Is this explained anywhere?
- varunkmohan 4y agoIt isn't zero, that's for sure! Before Codeium, we as a team were building scalable ML infrastructure for some of the world's largest ML workloads, so we have a lot of experience in building infra (especially ML serving infra) that optimizes computation on GPUs/mixed compute resources to drastically reduce serving costs. We will probably talk more about these infra side optimizations in future blog posts!
- nequo 4y agoWhat is your monetization strategy? What additional features are you planning that will generate revenue?
- sva_ 4y agoNot a very elegant way of tip-toeing around the question of "how do you finance this?/what's the catch?"
- nothrowaways 4y agoThe catch is the code runs on your machine but the team doesn't tell you.
- freedomben 4y agoYes, but that would actually be an awesome feature! If only it didn't call home so much to send unknown payloads...
- neuronexmachina 4y agoFrom their faq: https://www.codeium.com/faq https://www.codeium.com/faq > How do you plan to make money? > Fair question whenever anything is billed as free forever, especially when there are clear infrastructure serving costs as we do! To be clear, this free forever deal is in order to provide some special benefit to early adopters like yourself who have supported Codeium from the beginning. We are actively working on a bunch of exciting additional features that we may consider as part of a paid Pro subscription, but we are committed to offering state-of-the-art code completion forever for free to you and as cheaply as possible to every developer at large.