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There are already some providers offering cheap LLM services that will give you a response within 24 hours instead of within seconds. That allows them to schedu
by wongarsu 2y ago
There are already some providers offering cheap LLM services that will give you a response within 24 hours instead of within seconds. That allows them to schedule tasks during low-request hours when they have spare capacity and use better batching. For some automated tasks this is perfectly acceptable. A bit of effort to accommodate, but easy to justify when it halves your inference costs
- sandis 2y agoAny examples of such providers?
- dghlsakjg 2y agoCertain tasks at OpenAI when I checked a few months ago. Embedding for one.
- wongarsu 2y agoOpenAI [1] as well as Azure OpenAI, Anthropic [2], as well as Parasail [3] for all the "open source" models. There are others that I was thinking of, but those are the first I could find without my notes. Typically the batch API is 50% cheaper than live inference 1: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/batch https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/batch 2: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/batch-processing https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/batch-p... 3: https://docs.parasail.io/parasail-docs/batch/batch-quickstart https://docs.parasail.io/parasail-docs/batch/batch-quickstar...