LeCun: serving one $200/mo power user costs about $15,000 (techstrong.ai)
LeCun's economic punchline: today's subscriptions don't cover their own compute, and he wants a diversity of AI systems "for the same reason we need a high diversity of the press."
The thread's flip is hardware, not weights. You can't have open-source AI, one widely-read commenter argues, without open hardware specs and manufacturing. Another asks the unglamorous question: can most of the world afford the machine to run any of it?
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