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Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by latchkey on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:53PM (#37861393)
For the same reason people use AWS.

Spending the capex/opex to run a cluster of compute isn't easy or cheap. It isn't just the cost of the GPU, but the cost of everything else around it that isn't just monetary.

Re:OpenAI is too cheap to beat by etothepii on Thursday October 12, 2023 @03:02PM (#37861544)
This could be an interesting comparison. My experience with AWS is that it was super easy and cheap to start on. By the time we could use whole servers we were using so much AWS orchestration that it's going to be put off until we are at least $1M ARR, and probably til we are at $5M.

Make adoption easy, give a free base tier but charge more could be a very effective model to get start ups stuck on you. It even probably makes adoption by small teams in big companies possible that can then grow ...