[JimDabell]

Set up to use, sure. Learn? Learning isn’t deployment in this context.

Setting up spaCy is just `pip install spacy`. No need to worry about GPUs or dedicated services like you do with LLMs.

[throwawaymaths]

yeah, then you have to learn the API. Basically every option for running LLMs have converged on the openAI (web) API.

[JimDabell]

“Learning the API” is not deployment.