The real cost of the cloud

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>There's a documented arc here, not vibes: launching a tech startup cost about $5M in 2000 (servers, Oracle licenses, salaried engineers), about

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>A noticeable trend is happening: more users are moving away from heavily aligned cloud models (like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) toward local or

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<p>GPT-5.4 shipped on March 5. Seven weeks later, on April 23, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-5.5 — and the pace alone tells you something about where this race is headed. This isn't