A great many people today use only the proprietary, software-as-a-service providers for their LLMs, diffusion models, etc., and those services are indisputably costing far more to provide, than the revenue gained from users. They are funded to ridiculous levels by investment from funders who haven’t yet figured out they will not be getting paid.
That kind of service will not survive the bursting of the current hyperscaler bubble. We will not have today’s low-priced access to (and therefore we will not have shoved down our throat, in every application and device and online service, at low cost) the gargantuan resource-guzzling data centres, because the hyperscalers will not be keeping those operating when their investment funds dry up.
A great many people today use only the proprietary, software-as-a-service providers for their LLMs, diffusion models, etc., and those services are indisputably costing far more to provide, than the revenue gained from users. They are funded to ridiculous levels by investment from funders who haven’t yet figured out they will not be getting paid.
That kind of service will not survive the bursting of the current hyperscaler bubble. We will not have today’s low-priced access to (and therefore we will not have shoved down our throat, in every application and device and online service, at low cost) the gargantuan resource-guzzling data centres, because the hyperscalers will not be keeping those operating when their investment funds dry up.