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Yes. Though we don't know for sure whether that's because they actually have lower costs, or whether it's just the Chinese taxpayer being forced to serve us a
by eru 11mo ago
Yes. Though we don't know for sure whether that's because they actually have lower costs, or whether it's just the Chinese taxpayer being forced to serve us a treat.
- chronogram 11mo agoThird party providers are still cheap though. The closed models are the ones where you can't see the real cost to running them.
- eru 11mo agoOh, I was mostly talking about the Chinese taxpayer footing the training bill. You are right that we can directly observe the cost of inference for open models.
- rescbr 11mo agoNot sure the Chinese taxpayer is footing the bill though - of course, it might not be net zero, there might be secondary effects, etc. A few days ago I read an article saying the Chinese utilities have a pricing structure that favors high-tech industries (say, an AI data center), making the difference by charging more the energy-intensive but less sophisticated industries (an aluminium smelter, for example). Admittedly, there are some advantages when you do central and long-term economic planning.