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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

Like a fraction of a percent of people will run their own models. It won't influence price. Remember that coders/tech people are only a minority of users.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Oh, I see. I was mistaken. I thought tech companies were OpenAI's major customers, and they certainly could make their own data centers for internal work, and that coders--that minority of users--were the only ones likely to pay full price for tokens, the rest of us wouldn´t be willing to pay full fare for a machine that is right most of the time sort of. Thanks for setting me straight on that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    Some large companies do it ... but I think you greatly overestimate the willingness of large enterprises to build and maintain their own infra. Once a company has lost the competency (and many have), it's hard to get it back. There are always pockets of people with the right skillset in a large org, but they mostly don't want to do DC work anymore. Team/personal servers and beefy laptops, otoh...

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