[theptip]

Perhaps I’m missing your point, but isn’t that what they do with their API right now? You pay for text completions, and can fine-tune their model with your data.

[veqq]

But you can't run the code on your own machine.

[est]

> But you can't run the code on your own machine.

iirc GPT-3 itself alone is some 500TB in size. You need a really, really big machine to run LLMs, the first L means Large.

[mattnewton]

Of course, if they leaked the model weight’s and a local inference binary for it they would lose the ability to charge for it. Clones with the weights would crop up all over the place.