Self-hosting open source models requires a steep upfront cost and weaker models, paying off only for long-running tasks. Renting open source models via API avoids hardware risk and allows easy switching. Blending frontier subscriptions for planning with API-rate open models for execution can produce a month of work from twenty engineers for around a thousand dollars.
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China cracks down on Western AI models