alt Hacker News> The better open models are the less you need frontier models
True in theory, but in practice hardware availability and cost will keep open source impractical for years to come.
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dontlikeyoueith • yesterday at 11:01 PM
If your moat is "Our vendors aren't expanding fast enough to supply our competitors!", you don't have a moat.
It will be impractical to self host, but not to get one that's served from other providers (which won't have to recuperate loses from training).