alt Hacker NewsDoes that mean those running the open models are highly profitable since they don't have to do any training?
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polski-g • yesterday at 4:45 PM
Yes obviously, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it; they'd just go back to mining shitcoins.
Does that mean those running the open models are highly profitable since they don't have to do any training?
Yes obviously, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it; they'd just go back to mining shitcoins.
I don’t know about highly since they have no moat even more than Antrhropic and OpenAI have no moat. Anyone with a few hundred thousand dollars or sufficient free GPUs can compete with them. So running an open model should earn a market-rate margin.