Yeah, she is, because when reality sets in, these models will probably have monthly cellphone/internet level costs. And training is the main money sink, whereas inference is cheap.
500,000,000 people paying $80/mo is roughly a 5-yr ROI on a $2T investment.
I cannot believe on a tech forum I need to explain the "Get them hooked on the product, then jack up the price" business model that probably 40% of people here are kept employed with.
Right now they are (very successfully) getting everyone dependent on LLMs. They will pull rug, and people will pay to get it back. And none of the labs care if 2% of people use local/chinese models.
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Yeah, she is, because when reality sets in, these models will probably have monthly cellphone/internet level costs. And training is the main money sink, whereas inference is cheap.
500,000,000 people paying $80/mo is roughly a 5-yr ROI on a $2T investment.
I cannot believe on a tech forum I need to explain the "Get them hooked on the product, then jack up the price" business model that probably 40% of people here are kept employed with.
Right now they are (very successfully) getting everyone dependent on LLMs. They will pull rug, and people will pay to get it back. And none of the labs care if 2% of people use local/chinese models.