Better question: why does a simple search for “What color is a labrador retriever” require any compute time when the answer can be cached? This is a simple example, but 90% of my searches don’t require an llm to process a simple question.
The compute for a direct answer like that is fractions of a penny, it might be better to create answers on the fly than store an index of every question anyone has asked (well, that's essentially what the weights are after all)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rising-cost-llm-based-search-...