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101008 ◴[] No.43464981[source]
Silly question: how can OpenAI, Claude and all, have a valuation so large considering all the open source models? Not saying they will disappear or be tiny (closed models), but why so so so valuable?
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elorant ◴[] No.43466079[source]
The average user won't self-host a model.
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1. hobofan ◴[] No.43467849[source]
The competition isn't self-hosting. If you can just pick a capable model from any provider inference just turns into a infrastructure/PaaS game -> The majority of the profits will be captured by the cloud providers.