A majority of apps nowadays are using proprietary forks of open source DBs running in the cloud, where their feature set is (slightly) rounded out and smoothed off by the cloud vendors.
Not that many projects are doing fully self-hosted RDBMS at this point. So ultimately proprietary databases still win out, they just (ab)use the Postgresql trademark to make people think they're using open source.
LLMs might go the same way. The big clouds offering proprietary fine tunes of models given away by AI labs using investor money?
That's definitely true. I could see more of the running open source models on other people's hardware model.
I dislike running local LLMs right now because I find the software kinda janky still, you often have to tweak settings, find the right model files. Basically have a bunch of domain knowledge I don't have space for in my head. On top of maintaining a high-spec piece of hardware and paying for the power costs.
Not that many projects are doing fully self-hosted RDBMS at this point. So ultimately proprietary databases still win out, they just (ab)use the Postgresql trademark to make people think they're using open source.
LLMs might go the same way. The big clouds offering proprietary fine tunes of models given away by AI labs using investor money?