

Inference is dirt cheap in comparison. Hundreds to thousands of concurrent users can be served by hardware costing in the high-thousands to low-ten-thousands.
Training those same foundational models is weeks to months of time on tens to hundreds of millions worth of hardware.





Depending on when you were born: Class of '09
I’m not sure how it would hit for non-millenials but if you went to school in the early aughts the entire series is great.