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> I don't think most of the large customers will care about OSS AI. One would think the same in the 90s but yet, for some reason, Open Source prevailed and too

> I don't think most of the large customers will care about OSS AI. One would think the same in the 90s but yet, for some reason, Open Source prevailed and took over the world. I don't believe it was about cost, at least not only. In my career I had to evaluate many technical solutions and products and OSS was often objectively superior at several levels without taking account the cost. The first really successful alternative to "Open"AI will: * gather many talented developers * will quickly become a de facto standard solution * people will rapidly start developing a wide range of integrations for it * everybody will be using it, including large orgs, because, well, it's open source

ugh123 3y ago
True, but the difference here is that running a performant and capable AI solution will be infrastructure-dependent, which has real costs.
- hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
  Yes, and I believe it will develop in two ways over decades. Just like all major legacy hosting companies such as DigitalOcean, OVH or Hetzner have been offering a kind of public cloud services (at various levels, and after much feet dragging), they - and new AI hosting providers focusing exclusively on this use case - will provide the necessary services. The other trend is the one we are already seeing right now: more and more mature solutions that you can use even on your laptop with a relatively new GPU. I'm sure we'll see some interesting results in this area, too.
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jacobr1 3y ago
Open Source hasn't really taken over the world, if you look at end-solutions. As a software developer I might use an open source database, but as end-user I'm probably not going to use open-source accounting package - but I will use an accounting SaaS system that happens to be implemented with that OSS DB. As a software developer I might use an OSS operating system, but as end-user I use a software that has been packaged and maintained by corporation like OSX, or even if OSS in license, has been fully packaged like Android.

ugh123 3y ago

True, but the difference here is that running a performant and capable AI solution will be infrastructure-dependent, which has real costs.

hdjjhhvvhga 3y ago
Yes, and I believe it will develop in two ways over decades. Just like all major legacy hosting companies such as DigitalOcean, OVH or Hetzner have been offering a kind of public cloud services (at various levels, and after much feet dragging), they - and new AI hosting providers focusing exclusively on this use case - will provide the necessary services. The other trend is the one we are already seeing right now: more and more mature solutions that you can use even on your laptop with a relatively new GPU. I'm sure we'll see some interesting results in this area, too.

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jacobr1 3y ago

Open Source hasn't really taken over the world, if you look at end-solutions. As a software developer I might use an open source database, but as end-user I'm probably not going to use open-source accounting package - but I will use an accounting SaaS system that happens to be implemented with that OSS DB. As a software developer I might use an OSS operating system, but as end-user I use a software that has been packaged and maintained by corporation like OSX, or even if OSS in license, has been fully packaged like Android.