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$78k is very small, even for bootstrapped companies. Only the very smallest shops would be inhibited by that. And I admit, that's a lot of them! I get it. It su

$78k is very small, even for bootstrapped companies. Only the very smallest shops would be inhibited by that. And I admit, that's a lot of them! I get it. It sucks to be a solo developer who wants to get involved and doesn't want to spend a bunch of cash. But still, for even small players $250k annually just isn't that much. What we might hope for are trimmed down, subsidized options for small shops who want to get started, with the hope to upgrade them to the full option when they are ready. In the meanwhile, you might consider partnering up with other small startups. Also, "open" doesn't mean free. Things take a lot of effort to build and maintain, and that effort needs to be accounted for somewhere.

eindiran 4y ago
> "open" doesn't mean free Yeah but none of the other definitions of "open" apply to OpenAI either.
- tiagod 4y ago
  Maybe Microsoft should change their name as well?...
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  The “open for business” sense certainly does.
- astrange 4y ago
  It means they release research papers. People haven't had trouble reproducing their work. (Of course, GPT's model architecture was invented at Google anyway.)
  - nl 4y ago
    > GPT's model architecture was invented at Google anyway No it wasn't. Transformers were invented at Google, but "architecture" when talking about neural networks means how they are arranged (and to some extent the training objective function) rather than the building blocks used.
    - l33t233372 4y ago
      I’m not sure what you mean. The words “transformer architecture” are standard across the literature.
      - nl 4y ago
        That's like saying "LSTM architecture". It says it uses a transformer but no description of how it is used. For example, the GPT architecture (which GPT 2 & 3 are slight modifications of) comprises of an embedding layer followed by 12x(self-attention/layer norm/feed forward/layer norm. That's what that GPT "transformer architecture" is, not just the transformer block itself. Strictly the architecture really also includes things like the embedding size and number of heads (which are in the GPT paper).
simple-thoughts 4y ago
Many of us don’t have access to banking or financial services, and “open” ai doesn’t accept crypto payments. The name is a legacy from their nonprofit days and has nothing to do with being open to the public.

eindiran 4y ago

> "open" doesn't mean free Yeah but none of the other definitions of "open" apply to OpenAI either.

tiagod 4y ago
Maybe Microsoft should change their name as well?...
dragonwriter 4y ago
The “open for business” sense certainly does.
astrange 4y ago
It means they release research papers. People haven't had trouble reproducing their work. (Of course, GPT's model architecture was invented at Google anyway.)
- nl 4y ago
  > GPT's model architecture was invented at Google anyway No it wasn't. Transformers were invented at Google, but "architecture" when talking about neural networks means how they are arranged (and to some extent the training objective function) rather than the building blocks used.
  - l33t233372 4y ago
    I’m not sure what you mean. The words “transformer architecture” are standard across the literature.
    - nl 4y ago
      That's like saying "LSTM architecture". It says it uses a transformer but no description of how it is used. For example, the GPT architecture (which GPT 2 & 3 are slight modifications of) comprises of an embedding layer followed by 12x(self-attention/layer norm/feed forward/layer norm. That's what that GPT "transformer architecture" is, not just the transformer block itself. Strictly the architecture really also includes things like the embedding size and number of heads (which are in the GPT paper).

simple-thoughts 4y ago

Many of us don’t have access to banking or financial services, and “open” ai doesn’t accept crypto payments. The name is a legacy from their nonprofit days and has nothing to do with being open to the public.