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The e.g. image generation AI feature is using DALL-E externally and this kind of thing isn't free. The one time cost of a Windows license doesn't seem worth it,
by zamadatix 2y ago
The e.g. image generation AI feature is using DALL-E externally and this kind of thing isn't free. The one time cost of a Windows license doesn't seem worth it, especially with the prices OEMs pay for them. There's gotta be other long term revenue generation goals driving it.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoMicrosoft all but owns OpenAI at this point; using DALL-E isn't free, but they're almost certainly running it on their own infrastructure, and were kind of already giving access to it away for free, with Bing Chat and now Copilot. Also, if DALL-E is anything like Stable Diffusion, it's effectively free to run. For comparison, my 5+ years old machine that I recently put a 4070 Ti in, can generate images with SD all day long without breaking sweat, and does it faster than even paid on-line services I've interacted with so far. That same machine chokes on any LLM above 8-10 billion parameters; it can handle that much with full GPU offload, but try anything larger and it becomes just an elaborate space heater. (I tried running 8x7b Mixtral on it once, and managed to OOM and crash the system :/).