[ramesh31]

>So the comparison would be the cost of renting a cloud GPU to run Llama vs querying ChatGPT.

Yes, and it doesn't even come close. Llama2-70b can run inference at 300+tokens/s on a single V100 instance at ~$0.50/hr. Anyone who can should be switching away from OpenAI right now.

[cheptsov]

How do you fit Llama2-70b into V100? V100 is 16GB. Llama2-70b 4bit would require up to 40GB. Also, what do you use for inference to get 300+tokens/s?

[thewataccount]

What's the best way to use LLama2-70b without existing infrastructure for orchestrating it?

[mjirv]

I stumbled upon OpenRouter[0] a few days ago. Easiest I’ve seen by far (if you want SaaS, not hosting it yourself).

[0] https://openrouter.ai

[ramesh31]

>What's the best way to use LLama2-70b without existing infrastructure for orchestrating it?

That's an exercise left to the reader for now, and is where your value/moat lies.

[thewataccount]

> That's an exercise left to the reader for now, and is where your value/moat lies.

Hopefully more on-demand services enter the space. Currently where I am we don't have the resources for any type of self orchestration and our use case is so low/sporadic that we can't simply have a dedicated instance.

Last I saw the current services were rather expensive but I should recheck.

[pdntspa]

I bought an old server off ServerMonkey for like $700 with a stupid amount of RAM and CPUs and it runs Llama2-70b fine, if a little slowly. Good for experimenting