Equation 37 · Part 4 · The Real Economics of Shipping a Model to a Device
Symbol c_cloud
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loud is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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loud is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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The marginal-cost argument for on-device inference is not wrong; it is one term in a four-term equation, and the other three — variant-matrix engineering, distillation-versus-teacher economics, and update-distribution bandwidth — are each individually documented at real, checkable magnitudes in this article. Distillation itself is nearly always worth doing: disclosed training runs in the hundreds of dollars clear their own break-even point against even modest cloud query volumes almost immediately. Placing the result on a device is a separate, harder calculation, one that rises with every additional tier a release has to validate and every device already in the field that has to receive the…
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