With OpenAI's Luna, cloud beats open weights on price — at least GPUs heat the house
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-10-07
The quoted post notes that after OpenAI's Luna launch, talk of how cheap open-source models are has gone quiet — cloud pricing has crushed that conversation. The poster quips that cloud is indeed cheaper, but self-hosting open weights at least lets you heat your house with GPU waste heat.
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