Why not use a combination of open source and OpenAI models? GPT-3.5 is already beaten by Mixtral and Mistral-Medium. The first one you can host for free and the second has a darn cheap API while getting really close to GPT-4 performance.
Not really relevant when they will be using GPT-4, is it?
Plus the powerful features from code interpreter is a night and day difference
Not everything is worth saving a bit of money to get worse performance from something that has a worse network effect
I guess organisations move slow.
But atleast now they will have a culture and practices of working around it.
However I think it's a typo when the article says GPT-3.5. It doesn't make sense to "buy" GPT-3.5. They probably meant ChatGPT Plus which includes GPT-4 access (50 messages in a rolling 3 hour window).
Who builds the UI? Who manages accounts?
Mistral , open source etc do not have a sales force. Shame really
Is a school supposed to set up infrastructure for all of that themselves?
The Mistral cloud offers are perhaps a bit too young to have been considered. And perhaps a bit more risky too.