Revolut says that in less than a year it’s managed to slash its [code generation] costs by roughly 90 percent by making self-hosted models its default instead of relying primarily on commercial services like Claude.

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    17 hours ago

    This is going to be a trend, and why I think the IPO for Anthropic is ridiculous. Competition is massive, there is no moat.

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      I think the doomerism was all to get that moat. There’s no vendor lockin either, even if you’re using the API. You can switch between providers really easily.

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        Not to mention there isn’t public pushback against an office with a server room like there is against dedicated data centers. Assuming they are running servers and not just some desktops with GPUs.