[breckenedge]

It’s fine to use their embeddings for a proof of concept, but since you don’t own it, you probably shouldn’t rely on it because it could go away at any time.

[adeelk93]

Couldn’t you make that argument against all SaaS?

[anshumankmr]

Well some SaaS purists may believe that to be true about Microsoft Office 365. Hence we have, Microsoft Office 2021.

(Although there is a lot more advantages to just having Office 2021 like the flat fee)

[breckenedge]

Yes and no. Sometimes you get contracts that require “source code escrow” so that companies can run your source if you ever go out of business.