[HN Gopher] AI Is Already a Commodity
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       AI Is Already a Commodity
        
       Author : tiagopavan
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-12-07 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | cs702 wrote:
       | It's not just a commodity, but a _very_ capital-and-labor-
       | intensive one.
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       | Developing, training, retraining, and delivering a competitive AI
       | service today requires an army of expensive people and a huge
       | investment in infrastructure. It's not cheap!
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       | Moreover, any improvement, whether it's better generation, longer
       | context, a new modality, cheaper prices, or something else, is
       | quickly replicated by all major groups.
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       |  _They 're in a race to see who can spend the most the fastest
       | while charging the least to prevent customers from switching._
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       | Meanwhile, free open-source alternatives keep getting better and
       | more efficient.
        
         | dartos wrote:
         | Which open source models are u referring to? Most are based on
         | llama, which isn't open source, and some on mistral, which is
         | more open, but we don't have access to the data, so we can't
         | make it ourselves (in the spirit of open source)
        
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