Comment by SpicyLemonZest
3 hours ago
Or I can just use the domestic model, accepting that I'm paying some premium in order to reduce the complexity of my dependencies and the amount of time I have to spend thinking about supply chain risk. It's the same reason I don't buy things from Alibaba even though many things I buy from Amazon are surely available there for less.
You use “use the model” as if it was equal to “paid some guys to run inference on their hardware”.