Comment by jasongi

Pretty much. Always-on doesn't scale as well as JIT access to a massive array of GPUs, because always-on means it's always-using-memory - so you're at least going to paying the cost of a minimum chips VPS for every Dot right?

Maybe people are ok with that, but I feel like it would be nicer to just sell a cheap SBC like a raspberry pi that you can plug in (and unplug!) and just pay for the tokens used instead of having your data stored offsite and paying cloud prices.