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1. amelius · 1789928450 · focus · HN ↗

   Will that be enough for AI's hunger?

   1. GoToRO · 1789929801 · focus · HN ↗

      It will be just in time for when AI will run very well on consumer hardware and the need for data centers will collapse.

      1. IshKebab · 1789930756 · focus · HN ↗

         That's never going to happen. By the time you can run current frontier models on your $10k desktop the frontier will have massively advanced and people will want those models instead.

         1. kingleopold · 1789930974 · focus · HN ↗

            This + your ROI in $10k device will be always lower than busy datacenter, its literally math. They sell free compute to others when you dont use it, you will never sell at that level or even you magically sell home compute, you will not compete at price

            1. leoc · 1789947707 · focus · HN ↗

               That greater efficiency only benefits the LLM SaaS providers as long as the hardware manufacturers, probably especially the VRAM manufacturers, remain supply constrained, since the high-efficiency users are the ones who can pay top dollar. But the hardware guys' dream is presumably to get parts into millions of laptops which remain on standby for 19 hours a day, not to bargain with SaaS providers who obsessively optimise their memory consumption.

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