This is an entirely immaterial detail that could and would easily be addressed. I’m just going to assume that OpenAI’s arm can be twisted wrt terms and conditions for Big Clients, as is standard practice. But even if it couldn’t be, I’ve got no doubt that OpenAI will accept the literal shipping containers of money from a bank in exchange for an on-prem GPT-3 appliance.

The point is this is immensely resource intensive model which can only be trained and developed at scale only by companies with massive amounts of funding. Small players and non tech companies have little choice. OpenAI will do everything to monopolize this.

You don't have to send the customer's name, etc. Perhaps can obfuscate some of the data before you send it, too, which might involve sending data to other models.

They’re working on private and dedicated instances from alleged product briefs.

Keep in mind Microsoft is also a monster in selling to enterprise, regulated industry and governments, they will have this functionality to get firms to securely drive AI workloads on Azure as part of their pitch.

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