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Re:Mistral: Mixtral of Experts by anonylizard on Monday December 11, 2023 @05:26AM (#38599269)
Too bad GPT3.5 Turbo is dirt cheap. Open source models are substantially more expensive when you factor in operating costs. There is no mature ecosystem where you can just plug in a model and spin up a robust infrastructure to run a local LLM at scale, aka you need infrastructure/ML engineers to do it, aka extremely expensive unless you are using LLMs at extremely large scales.
Re:Mistral: Mixtral of Experts by dylanjcastillo on Monday December 11, 2023 @05:36AM (#38599326)
I think we'll start seeing a lot more services like https://www.together.ai soon.

Having open-weight models better than gpt-3.5 will drive a lot of competition on the LLM infra.

Re:Mistral: Mixtral of Experts by happycube on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:30AM (#38600927)
Mistral's endpoint for mistral-small is slightly cheaper.
Re:Mistral: Mixtral of Experts by Der_Einzige on Monday December 11, 2023 @12:19PM (#38602443)
The additional control/features (support for grammars, constraints, fine-tuning, etc) far o/w the cost savings.