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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've read all the comments here, many of which contradict my points. I used to agree with those ideas but then tried to sell LLMs to customers. My takeaway is that customers will pretend they care about privacy and needs for on prem installations, but they will, at least right now, go with a vendor that tells them their data is protected and not investigate the truth of that.

Zoom got away with it and still does and no one got fired for using zoom.

I'm happy to have a debate with someone that has successfully sold those ideas to a customer, but I'm skeptical until then.