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when a service is free, who is the customer and who is the product being sold?
by riffic 2y ago
when a service is free, who is the customer and who is the product being sold?
- myhf 2y agoThe current hype cycle is about artificially inflating the value of Nvidia stock by creating do-nothing "products" and "customers". It would be more efficient to have the public pay for GPUs directly.
- LarsDu88 2y agoAuthor here: For cloud hosts like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, the product is their inference hardware (mostly GPUs). The bigger the open model, the better! For Meta however, its a bit more mysterious. From what I can glean, the stated objective is to ensure that the world standardizes on the same AI platform tooling Meta uses internally (presumably to drive down dev costs?). The bigger "product" however is content creation itself. Giving users the ability to generate engaging content more easily can keep folks using social media and buying ads.