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You know. because LLMs can only be built by corporations... but because they're so easy to build, I see the price going down massively thanks to competition. Co
by ninetyninenine 1y ago
You know. because LLMs can only be built by corporations... but because they're so easy to build, I see the price going down massively thanks to competition. Consumers benefit because all the companies are trying to out run each other.
- codr7 1y agoAnd then they all go out of business, since models cost a fortune to build, and their fan club is left staring at their computers trying to remember how to do anything without getting it served on a silver plate.
- merth 1y agoInvestors pouring money, its probably impossible to go out of business, at least for the big ones, until investors realise this is wrong hill to die on.
- codr7 1y agoWhich they will eventually; so the point stands, no matter how unpopular with the AI excusers out there.
- wrsh07 1y agoI expect they don't go out of business: at worst they don't start their next training run quite as aggressively and instead let their new very good model be profitable for a minute Many many companies are currently thrilled to pay the current model prices for no performance improvement for 2-3 years We still have so many features to build on top of current capabilities
- croes 1y agoEasy doesn’t mean cheap. They need lots of energy and customers don’t pay much, if they pay at all
- briian 1y agoExactly, The developers of AI models do have a moat, the cost of training the model in the first place. It's 90% of the low effort AI wrappers with little to no value add who have no moat.