Because "you don't need to be able to self-host it" is a constraint, I'm arguing that you DO need to be able to self host it, not that difficult. Every thing being rented out instead of available for ownership is nothing but neofeudalism, which we are rapidly spiraling into.
> pushing on it can ruin the entire enterprise.
I'm supposed to feel sorry for the trillion dollar corporations that hoovered up all of human knowledge, for profit, and are now the direct reason why 32GB of RAM is now $500 instead of $90, all while renting compute back out to us, making it more and more expensive to actually own hardware, a fundamental privilege that enabled all of this technology in the first place?
Let the "enterprise" be ruined. It'll be for the better.
> Let the "enterprise" be ruined. It'll be for the better.
Maybe my choice of words was a bit confusing, I actually had in mind the "enterprise" of making sure people have access to capable and uncensored models. As far as the enterprises you dislike, I don't use them, I do use hosted models but not theirs.
> I'm supposed to feel sorry for the trillion dollar corporations that hoovered up all of human knowledge, for profit, and are now the direct reason why 32GB of RAM is now $500 instead of $90, all while renting compute back out to us, making it more and more expensive to actually own hardware, a fundamental privilege that enabled all of this technology in the first place?
No disagreement here, I've been writing about it for months now. There's a lot to say about it but it's a long discussion that will have to be focused on economics and politics, something HN isn't fond of.
All I can say, is that you're right, the goal is to have abundant and cheap hardware and a lot of other things too. But in order to get there we will have to learn to pick, choose and support hosted models that care about our freedom to know things.
Ah, that makes sense now thank you. I had assumed by enterprise you were referring to OpenAI/Anthropic/etc.