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Probably keep building something awesome and worry about monetization later. Google did that.
by shin_lao 2y ago
Probably keep building something awesome and worry about monetization later. Google did that.
- woodrowbarlow 2y agogoogle didn't give the world free access to their crawler database, though -- which i'd say is equivalent to what mixtral is doing.
- bananapub 2y agoeven if Google had, it would have been of little value, since running Google, even back then, required a lot of computers and a lot of humans. which is rather like Mistral - running large models is expensive, and hosting lets you amortise that across lots of users who individually use the model very little.
- genewitch 2y agogoogle ostensibly started on beige boxes, though. They used whatever computers they could get cheaply and quickly, even older hardware sufficed. There was a niche global group of people who could make stuff like that work as a much larger compute system (beowulf, etc). I don't know that it took "a lot of humans" to bootstrap.
- startupsfail 2y agoSovereign AI. France can afford supporting a shop that makes one.