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If open weight models are the future, U.S. AI companies are going to have a hard time (www.fastcompany.com)
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[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or... honestly, just pay $40 for basically unlimited usage for a year from an API, then roll your own frontend.

Can you clarify, what you mean by this? Rent a VPS? Or is there a legitimately good place that'll offer "unlimited" llm api access for $40 / year (and would you have any sort of privacy with this)?

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I was thinking of Xiaomi's Lite coding plan:

https://platform.xiaomimimo.com/token-plan

My mistake, it's $60. But that's still dirt cheap.

You can read their terms of service; coding APIs are generally less invasive than something like the ChatGPT app, but don't bet on any privacy either.

For my personal setup, I actually run most queries locally, via MiMo 2.5, but send "bulk" privacy-insensetive prompts to the same model on the API, since its so much faster. I kinda use them in parallel.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing the link. I'll take a peek at them and their ToS.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I also forgot to emphasize this, but Xiaomi’s plan, in my opinion, is undiscovered fruit.

GLM had a similar coding plan, but once it got popular, it got WAY more expensive and limited. I’m grandfathered into 6 more months of a GLM plan you literally cannot buy now.

And I think Xiaomi is in the same situation. It’s a fantastic model series, but no one knows it yet, which is how it’s still $60 fora year.