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there are roughly three of them and they all use the same pricing model. I am also not in the position to build a frontier model company these days.
by boredumb 26d ago
there are roughly three of them and they all use the same pricing model. I am also not in the position to build a frontier model company these days.
- surgical_fire 26d agoThere are more than 3. Hell, I use 3 different providers, and I currently don't give a dime to Anthropic or OpenAI.
- hn_throwaway_99 26d agoA per-token model roughly aligns with the providers' costs, and it is an objective measure, so it seems a reasonable way to charge. I see posts all the time on HN about which models from which providers offer the most bang-for-the-buck, and how to minimize token usage and still get optimal results, so it appears that competition is working.
- olibhel 26d agoYou could try: 1. Self hosting 2. Chinese models 3. Running it locally. Requires upfront cost and compromises on TPS.
- sebastiennight 25d ago> I am also not in the position to build a frontier model company these days. Well if you're not even going to put in the effort... Wait. Let me do this for you. /config model=boredumb effort=xhigh /ultraplan "Build a frontier model that can run @1ktok/sec anywhere DOOM will run"
- shepherdjerred 25d agothere are way more than three options. the following all have great models - OpenAI - Anthropic - Google - xAI (Grok) - Moonshot (Kimi) - Z (GLM) - Meta (Muse) - Deepseek