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> Providers can just run them, offer cheap tokens, and pocket the margin. There’s an assumption that you can spin up the infra and acquire customers within tha
by chrismsimpson 1mo ago
> Providers can just run them, offer cheap tokens, and pocket the margin.
There’s an assumption that you can spin up the infra and acquire customers within that margin
- KeplerBoy 1mo agoWhich is not unreasonable. Just hosting it in the EU and promising not to retain / sell the data let's you charge a healthy extra and compete in many areas other players can't.
- chrismsimpson 1mo agoKeeping SLAs spinning isn’t this trivial
- andsoitis 1mo ago> Just hosting it in the EU and promising not to retain / sell the data let's you charge a healthy extra and compete in many areas other players can't. It's been a few years. Has anyone done this successfully yet?
- KeplerBoy 1mo agomelious.ai comes to mind.
- layer8 1mo agoThere are a over a dozen EU open-weight providers. I’m not sure if they are even charging that much of an extra. EU-based clients have little reason to use non-EU inference providers.
- andsoitis 1mo ago> EU-based clients have little reason to use non-EU inference providers. Which models are most popular in Europe?
- jazzyjackson 1mo agoI don’t have user statistics but my mail/domain registrar Infomaniak advertises Qwen 3.5 and Apertus, “a Swiss open-source AI model, developed by EPFL, ETH Zurich and CSCS” https://euria.infomaniak.com/ https://euria.infomaniak.com/
- re-thc 1mo ago> There’s an assumption that you can spin up the infra and acquire customers within that margin Only Nvidia and approved friends can at the moment. Nvidia can even backstop your loan required.