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>>tin7in+(OP)
The real gut-punch for this is a reminder how far behind most engineers are in this race. With web 1.0 and web 2.0 at least you could rent a cheap VPS for $10/month and try out some stuff. There is almost no universe where a couple of guys in their garage are getting access to 1000+ H100s with a capital cost in the multiple millions. Even renting at that scale is $4k/hour. That is going to add up quickly.

I hope we find a path to at least fine-tuning medium sized models for prices that aren't outrageous. Even the tiny corp's tinybox [1] is $15k and I don't know how much actual work one could get done on it.

If the majority of startups are just "wrappers around OpenAI (et al.)" the reason is pretty obvious.

1. https://tinygrad.org/

>>zoogen+Lo1
1) This is just what happens when an industry matures. If you want to start a new company to drill oil wells, you're going to spend a lot of money. Same if you're starting a new railroad, a new car company, a new movie studio...

2) Speaking of VPSes and web 1.0 in the same breath is a little anachronistic. Servers had much lower capacity in 1999, and cost much more. Sun was a billion dollar company during the bubble because it was selling tens of thousands of unix servers to startups in order to handle the traffic load. Google got a lot of press because they were the oddballs who ran on commodity x86 hardware.