# What is stopping you from trying out Discourse AI? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-stopping-you-from-trying-out-discourse-ai/306059 **Category:** Community Building **Tags:** ai **Created:** [April 30, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-stopping-you-from-trying-out-discourse-ai/306059 "2024-04-30T00:44:14Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 23
### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam) #### Post date: [May 8, 2024, 4:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-stopping-you-from-trying-out-discourse-ai/306059/23 "2024-05-08T04:50:51Z")
> [@BenLeong](#): > > Main barriers over here are navigating internal restrictions on third-party tools and data access (to get permission to start), and not having a clear method for estimating costs (token usage, etc) which prevents us from getting budget approved to start using the new tools. Please reach out to team@discourse. Its a huge shame not to have “related topics” enabled on your site and this is 100% hosted by us (and already included in all plans) so there are no data concerns or token concerns or pricing concerns. Similarly we self host the sentiment models and would be happy to explore them with you. I remain a little bit skeptical about sentiment cause I am trying to understand what specific example problems this solves. We are also exploring running open models on our hardware, llama 3 is surprisingly capable. It is possible we may be able to power features such as summaries on our own models longer term, especially if we can get the 7B models to do them confidently. I hear you on budgets, Discourse AI already tracks token usage per person, we intend to add quota into the plugin. > [@jordan-violet](#): > > We have strict requirements on how we can approach sending user data into AI services, and as such we’ve built our own AWS lambda service between Discourse and AWS Bedrock. This is very much on our roadmap, we are working on this right now, the ability to point at a URL and specify the “dialect” it speaks. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-stopping-you-from-trying-out-discourse-ai/306059)._