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What does this guy look at on Instagram to get a feed like that? It sounds like he sees what he does because that is all he looks for.
> And they’re charging 50–100/month to do what anyone could replicate for pennies. It’s not just overpriced — it’s dishonest. The entire business model relies on the user not knowing how simple it really is. But this is general SaaS model. Wrap thing that are being done by lower level software such as FFmpeg and expose them in a nice GUI ready for use by people who are not technical. So what can change in the example…
> Wrappers rely on OpenAI. OpenAI relies on Microsoft. Microsoft needs NVIDIA. NVIDIA owns the chips that power it all So this is the model that investors see. The reality is quite different. People and orgs are not stupid and want to avoid vendor lock-in. So in reality: * Wrapper don't only rely on OpenAI. In fact, in order to be competitive, they have to avoid OpenAI because it's terribly expensive. If they can get…
> Local models are a thing. You don't need proprietary models and API calls at all for certain uses. And these models get better and better each year. They are getting better so fast that I'm considering building a business that depends on much lower cost LLM inference. So betting years of effort on it. But the bet is also that the proprietary models won't run away with faster improvements that make local models unco…
I'm working on a solution right now that is using a local/cheap model first, does some validation, and if this validation fails, use the expensive SOTA model. This is the most reasonable approach if you have a way to verify the results somehow (which might not be easy depending on the use case).
Rant incoming. I know it's bad form to critique anything but the content... but I wish the story wasn't padded with those bland GenAI eyesores of an image. It's a dumb kneejerk reaction I observe in myself, but the presence of generated graphics anywhere immediately turn me off. GenAI padded blog post? Guess your content isn't interesting enough. GenAI album cover? Artist must be equally lazy at making music. GenAI g…
Maybe this explains some of the success of brat by Charli xcx last summer