Equation 2 · Part 5 · The Real Economics of Shipping a Model to a Device
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
against the cost of simply continuing to serve the teacher directly for the same query volume, . Here is the one-time training cost, Q is the number of queries served over the deployment’s life, and and are the marginal cost per query of serving each model, wherever that serving happens. The break-even query volume is
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model ↗
- [2] Sky-T1: Train your own O1 preview model within $450 ↗
- [5] DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report ↗
- [11] OpenAI's Sam Altman says giant A.I. models are over—but going small won't appease regulators ↗
- [3] Trends in the Dollar Training Cost of Machine Learning Systems ↗
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