LLM buy vs build

Table of Contents

• WHEN TO USE AN LLM
  • Use them for:
  • Avoid using them for:
• Buying VS Building

WHEN TO USE AN LLM

Use them for:

• Generating content
• Question and answering services
• ChatBots and AI assistants
• Diffusion (txt2img, txt23d, txt2vid, etc.)
• Talk-to-your-data applications
• Anything that involves communication

Avoid using them for:

• Latency-sensitive workloads
• Simple projects
• Problems we don’t solve with words but with math or algorithm - forecasting, outlier prediction, calculus, etc.
• Critical evaluations
• High-risk projects

Buying VS Building

• Control
• Competitive edge
• Integrate anywhere
• Costs
• Security and privacy

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References -

1. LLMs in Production