The problem with hosting these right now is that it's not a known quantity like lots of traditional business software is.

You can more-or-less approximate what your build out spend for a data center hosting database software is going to be. Your book of business will require a given amount of revenue to pay it off, but once that's known, it's off to the races.

With AI, things are moving so fast and new business models are being tried all the time. You would be competing with some of the wealthiest companies in the world for data center hardware capable of hosting these models in a usable state.

We've gone with Claude somehow hosted through GCP Vertex AI where I'm at.