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On the flip-side, OpenAI is primed to destroy their competitors. Partnership with Microsoft means they can buy Azure compute at-cost if need be. Their current p
by smoldesu 4y ago
On the flip-side, OpenAI is primed to destroy their competitors. Partnership with Microsoft means they can buy Azure compute at-cost if need be. Their current portfolio of models is diverse on the expensive and cheap ends of the spectrum, with thousands of people on Twitter and HN still giving them lip-service. With dozens of clones hitting the market, OpenAI is the only one staying consistently relevant.
The widespread adoption of local AI won't obsolete a well-priced AI API. I feel like we learned that lesson pretty thoroughly in the SaaS era.
- xpe 4y ago> The widespread adoption of local AI won't obsolete a well-priced AI API. I feel like we learned that lesson pretty thoroughly in the SaaS era. Unless I am misunderstanding (?), this seems like an overgeneralized lesson. There are many key differences between these situations that make such a connection unlikely. Could you explain your reasoning?
- ijustlovemath 4y agoThe difference between this and SaaS is that businesses have been moving their (end user) products to SaaS due to wider broadband availability, as well as greed (read: MRR), but on the LLM side, people are building new products with it, so the incentives are to keep your costs low (or free) so you can make more money once you release.