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Should corporations and smaller businesses be training, refining, and running local LLMs to avoid the future cost of the new cloud services M$ and Amazon are rolling out? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by 3-4pm@alien.top to c/localllama@poweruser.forum

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It seems to me that the next big boom for cloud computing will be offering to train and host models that understand the unique business domains it serves.

Are the smart corporations already training local LLMs to understand and answer questions about their business, or is this space too new to accommodate them?

I feel like some of you may be missing a huge business opportunity. You may not realize the value of what you have already researched.

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[–] Belnak@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (8 children)

My perspective as a Fortune 500 IT solutions architect... why would I spend a few million dollars and a year of project time to build out local infrastructure that'll already be outdated by the time it's installed, when I can just hand my developers and data team permissions on Azure to be able to immediately access the same or better resources for a fraction of the cost? Scale is value, and cloud service providers will always have far greater scale.

[–] Rutabaga-Agitated@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah might fit in the US, but not in Europe. Dependencies can lead to problems. Especially when there might be a conflict. I would not want to run important infrastructure that is dependent on US services only.

[–] Belnak@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All major cloud providers have data centers in Europe.

[–] Rutabaga-Agitated@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

You are right. But if you have a chinese customer for example, there might come up different problems like with NVIDIA and GPUs. Independency is key for a lot of players.

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