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>>tosh+(OP)
We've tried to sell variants of the open source models to our existing enterprise customers.

I think the adage about "a solution needs to be 10x other solutions to make someone switch" applies here.

Saying something performs slightly better than the industry standard offerings (OpenAI) means that OpenAI is going to laugh all the way to the bank. Everyone will just use their APIs over anything else.

I'm excited about the LLM space and I can barely keep up with the model names, much less all the techniques for fine tuning. A customer is going to have an even worse time.

No one will ever get fired for buying OpenAI (now that IBM is dead, and probably sad Watson never made a dent).

I do use Mistral for all my personal projects but I'm not sure that is going to have the same effect on the industry as open source software did in the past.

>>xrd+Hi
I think at this point the "10x other solutions" should be measured for the cost. If I can process, in perpetuity, 100s of millions of tokens for the cost that OpenAI can do for 10s of millions of tokens one time, that is already past the threshold.