alt Hacker NewsWell, it is currently cheaper because it is massively subsidized. That will change when subsidies stop. I don’t think it is a good argument.
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hobofan • today at 4:00 PM
No it's not. AI products are quite often subsidized. AI inference very certainly is not.
There are more and more independent AI inference providers without VC backing that serve open weight models on a ~cost-plus basis that show that subsidies are not significant for AI inference.
voxleone • today at 7:28 PM
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The claim was "It is cheaper", not "It will be cheaper". Until it actually _is_ cheaper, it doesn't make much sense to purchase $10k+ in hardware to run local models that are still worse than the frontier offerings.