Self-hosting a large language model is not a model-selection decision — it is a VRAM budget, and every team that gets this wrong gets it wrong in the same direction: they pick the model first, discover the weights do not

Self-hosting a large language model is not a model-selection decision — it is a VRAM budget, and every team that gets this wrong gets it wrong in the same direction: they pick the model first, discover the weights do not
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