[freeqaz]

Their pockets are probably not as deep as Google's in terms of willingness to burn cash for market share.

If speed is your most important metric, I could still see there being a niche for this.

From a pure VC perspective though, I wonder if they'd be better off Open Sourcing their model to get faster innovation + centralization like Llama has done. (Or Mistral with keeping some models private, some public.)

Use it as marketing, get your name out there, and have people use your API when they realize they don't want to deal with scaling AI compute themselves lol