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If it was worth it, you'd see some easy self hostable package, no? And by definition, its profitable to self host or these AI companies are in trouble.
by jayd16 1y ago
If it was worth it, you'd see some easy self hostable package, no? And by definition, its profitable to self host or these AI companies are in trouble.
- quotemstr 1y agoDoes your "self hostable package" come with its own electric substation?
- jayd16 1y agoYou're saying that's needed for inference?
- serf 1y agoI think this misunderstands the scale of these models. And honestly I don't think a lot of these companies would turn a profit on pure utility -- the electric and water company doesn't advertise like these groups do; I think that probably means something.
- jayd16 1y agoWhat's the scale for inference? Is it truly that immense? Can you ballpark what you think would make such a thing impossible? > the electric and water company doesn't advertise like these groups do I'm trying to understand what you mean here. In the US these utilities usually operate in a monopoly so there's no point in advertising. Cell service has plenty of advertising though.
- tick_tock_tick 1y agoYou need a 100+gigs ram and a top of the line GPU to run legacy models at home. Maybe if you push it that setup will let you handle 2 people maybe 3 people. You think anyone is going to make money on that vs $20 a month to anthropic?
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- jayd16 1y agoCan you explain to me where Anthropic (or it's investors) expect to be making money if that's what it actually costs to run this stuff?
- lelanthran 1y ago> Can you explain to me where Anthropic (or it's investors) expect to be making money if that's what it actually costs to run this stuff? Not the GP (in fact I just replied to GP, disagreeing with them), but I think that economies of scale kick in when you are provisioning M GPUs for N users and both M and N are large. When you are provisioning for N=1 (a single user), then M=1 is the minimum you need, which makes it very expensive per user. When N=5 and M is still 1, then the cost per user is roughly a fifth of the original single-user cost.
- lelanthran 1y ago> You need a 100+gigs ram and a top of the line GPU to run legacy models at home. Maybe if you push it that setup will let you handle 2 people maybe 3 people. This doesn't seem correct. I run legacy models with only slightly reduced performance on 32GB RAM with a 12GB VRAM GPU right now. BTW, that's not an expensive setup. > You think anyone is going to make money on that vs $20 a month to anthropic? Why does it have to be run as a profit-making machine for other users? It can run as a useful service for the entire household, when running at home. After all, we're not talking about specialised coding agents using this[1], just normal user requests. ==================================== [1] For an outlay of $1k for a new GPU I can run a reduced-performance coding LLM. Once again, when it's only myself using it, the economics work out. I don't need the agent to be fully autonomous because I'm not vibe coding - I can take the reduced-performance output, fix it and use it.
- jayd16 1y agoPlus, when you're hosting it yourself, you can be reckless with what you feed it. Pricing in the privacy gain, it seems like self hosting would be worth the effort/cost.