One-page printable decision sheet: the four open-weights families and their licences, the shared three-part recipe, the self-hosting break-even math, and the licence-first decision tree for choosing an open vision-language model.
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AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Real-Time Pipelines and Agents to Serving, Cost, Compliance, and Verticals
This open-frontier VLM selection sheet compares four open-weights families and their licences, a shared recipe and the self-hosting break-even math. Volume 7 covers this topic in depth: serving and infrastructure with vLLM, Triton and TensorRT, cost per stream-hour, real-time pipelines and the compliance questions that come with running vision-language models yourself. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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