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Comparing OpenAI versus open-source LLMs
Asked in the L2 stage. Consulting use-cases + optimization round.
Compare the two options for an enterprise AI system and explain how you would make the choice. Address model quality, customization, inference cost, latency, scalability, data privacy, reliability, and operational complexity. Discuss when you would use a hosted OpenAI model, a self-hosted open-source model, or a hybrid architecture. Include how you would evaluate the decision offline and online, monitor production behavior, detect model or feature drift, and handle failures such as provider outages, hallucinations, rate limits, and GPU capacity constraints.