alt Hacker NewsWell there certainly is at least some kind of viable business running large AI models for a fee.
These are useful and too big to run locally.
The ultimate size of that business in terms of revenues and profits may not match current expectations, but it's also not 0
> Well there certainly is at least some kind of viable business running large AI models for a fee.
ok, where are:
- The economies of scale?
- The network effects?
- The switching costs?
- The intangible assets (e.g. brand?)
Running AI models for a fee has none of these. At best, there are some economies of scale for running a datacenter, but OpenAI and Anthropic have none.