Is there something specifically with Kimi that's better here? As far as I know Kimi pricing is about the same as Sonnet 5 -- what happens if you use that model and Fable instead? Or Grok 4.5 which is even cheaper?
You can more-or-less approximate what your build out spend for a data center hosting database software is going to be. Your book of business will require a given amount of revenue to pay it off, but once that's known, it's off to the races.
With AI, things are moving so fast and new business models are being tried all the time. You would be competing with some of the wealthiest companies in the world for data center hardware capable of hosting these models in a usable state.
We've gone with Claude somehow hosted through GCP Vertex AI where I'm at.
I suspect the overlap of those that can afford it, and those that have the talent to manage it, is a fairly thin slice of the Venn diagram. Even the large corps are gonna be getting it from the inference vendors, or more likely Bedrock and friends.
They "booked $24 billion in AI server orders this quarter as its customer base broadened to more than 5,000" https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/dells-ai-f...