• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    A lot of startups whose entire business model relies on OpenAI’s small model API calls costing under $1/Mtok, are going to go bust when OpenAI finally runs out of money and ramps the cost up tenfold.

      • pfizer_dose@lemmy.world
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        18 hours ago

        Yep it’s blitzscaling. Run it at a loss until it’s a necessity, then charge whatever the hell you want. They’re blitzscaling our right to intellectual property and our right to work.

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      11 hours ago

      It would be just cheaper to self-host something for the whole company then? Open-source AIs are there and they are very much competitive with proprietary solutions.

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        10 hours ago

        If you want OpenAI level response times you might be surprised how expensive self-hosting gets.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      15 hours ago

      ive seen a ton of billboards of startup AI comp in west coast, i assume every new one that appears on these billboards, the old ones go under.