It would cost less than $50 of compute to finetune an existing open source LLM to do the job for another $50 of computer. OpenAI's APIs are incredibly expensiv

It would cost less than $50 of compute to finetune an existing open source LLM to do the job for another $50 of computer. OpenAI's APIs are incredibly expensive compared to powerful open source LLMs which run on very accessible hardware. As one data point, LLaMA-13B beats GPT-3 175B in benchmarks, runs on a single 8GB VRAM consumer GPU, and takes only 24GB of VRAM to fine tune. (Though this particular model can't be used for commercial purposes.)