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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? in c/localllama@poweruser.forum

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

All major cloud providers have data centers in Europe.

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? in c/localllama@poweruser.forum

[–] 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why would I spend a few million dollars and a year of project time to build out local infrastructure that'll already be outdated by the time it's installed, when I can just hand my developers and data team permissions on Azure to be able to immediately access the same or better resources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.

Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI (Microsoft CEO Nadella "furious"; OpenAI President and three senior researchers resign) in c/localllama@poweruser.forum

[–] Belnak@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

This is probably great for Microsoft. Their investment got them low level code access and rights, but OpenAI competed with them for AI services. With OpenAI going more towards non-profit, and Sam now being hire-able, Microsoft may have inadvertently acquired the entire business portion of OpenAI.

Mistral Premium Model just mentioned at MS Ignite in c/localllama@poweruser.forum

[–] Belnak@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Being Premium doesn't mean it won't be open source, it may just mean that it's a branded, supported, and/or packaged version.

[–] Belnak@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

https://docs.mistral.ai/cloud-deployment/