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Not profitable against the cost to train and run the model plus R&D salaries, or just against the cost to run the model?
by margalabargala 1y ago
Not profitable against the cost to train and run the model plus R&D salaries, or just against the cost to run the model?
- philistine 1y agoWhile interesting as a matter of discourse, for any serious consideration you must consider the R&D costs when pricing a model. You have to pay for it somehow.
- bippihippi1 1y agohow long you amortize the R&D prices over is important too. Do significant discoveries remain relevant for long enough to have enough time to spread the cost out? I'd bet in the current ML market advamces are happening fast enough that they aren't factoring the R&D cost into pricing rn. In fact getting user's to use it is probably giving them a lot of value. Think of apl the data.
- margalabargala 1y agoThere are multiple pathways here. Company 1 gets a bucket of investment, makes a model, goes belly up. Company 2 buys Company 1's model in a fire sale. Company 3 uses some open source model that's basically as good as any other and just makes the prettiest wrapper. Company 4 resells access to other company's models at a discount, similar to companies reselling cellular service.