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Open source databases are SOTA or very close to it, though. Here the value proposition is to pay 10-50% less for an inferior product. Portability is definitely
by epups 3y ago
Open source databases are SOTA or very close to it, though. Here the value proposition is to pay 10-50% less for an inferior product. Portability is definitely an advantage, but that's another aspect which I think detracts from their value: if I can run this anywhere, I will either host it myself or pay whoever can make it happen very cheap. Even OpenAI could host an API for Mistral.
- chadash 3y ago> Here the value proposition is to pay 10-50% less for an inferior product. OpenAI just went through an existential crisis where the company almost collapsed. They are also quite unreliable. For some use cases, I'll take a service that does slightly worse on outputs, but much better on reliability. For example, if I'm building a customer service chat bot, it's a pretty big deal if the LLM backend goes down. With an open-source model, I can build it using the cloud provider. If they are a reliable host, i'll probably stick with them as i grow. If not, I always have the option of running the model myself. This alleviates a lot of the risk.