How to Deploy GPT-J

More than one year has passed since the public release of OpenAI's API for GPT-3. Since then, thousands of developers and hundreds of companies have started building on the platform to apply the transformer-based language model to a variety of NLP problems. In its wake, EleutherAI, a team of AI researchers open-sourcing their work, released their first implementation of a GPT-like system, the 2.7B parameter GPT-Neo, and most recently, the 6B parameter GPT-J. Before getting into GPT-J deployments, let's understand why a company or developer would use GPT-J in the first place. So why would one prefer to use the open-source 6B parameter GPT-J over the 175B parameter GPT-3 Davinci?