Only Asus from what I have seen. Acer/Dell units seem to run cooler than the Nvidia unit, by a noticeable margin. That said I bought the OEM units for the Gen 5 4TB SSD and the fact that it was on sale.
Open source isn't really open any more. It's just pre-acquisition. I'm happy to the creators for their payday but honestly just happy I opted out of BetterAuth building my latest product.
Meta's FAIR has several R&D offices in the EU, yes. So you are saying their labs can conduct R&D on models in the EU, potentially even train them there, they just can't have production LLM inference serving or release the model weights? I'm just not seeing it.
A not-insignificant portion of the AI/ML research community is in the EU.
They had it on sale last week for $3999, it will likely happen again. Also if you are willing to buy ASUS/Acer/MSI you can get them cheaper, in the same range as well. Those units are identical (mainboard/ram/chipset/connectivity), they only tend to differ in SSD being offered.
I recently bought a few sparks from Micro Center for the exact same price and it comes with ConnectX-7 200Gbps inter-connectivity. Not sure how AMD feels it can charge exactly the same for less.
When the Minneapolis bridge collapsed there were no criminal charges involved. HN has this obsession with "licensed engineers" as if it completely prevents catastrophe and holds people to the highest standards. It's just a dog and pony show.
It's also not an either/or, You can love both. I still love coding for the challenge, but I also love the productivity benefits AI brings me when producing things that benefit people.
At the end of the day I do not put my skills on a pedestal either, I can learn from AI the same way I learn from reading open source code.
Right but that could be more evenly distributed. There is a circular trade right now giving these few players near infinite resources that is blocking that from happening.
Right now, yes but I am fairly confident this will change. Not only do I truly believe we will see massive efficiency gains in inference, I also believe the cost of hardware will come down. Again Nvidia's getting a 75% margin on this hardware. Usually hardware margins are significantly smaller. More supply will come online even if that takes years.
The labs have a perverse incentive to make things as expensive compute wise as possible. The only thing keeping this somewhat in check is competition, but it's intentionally being gatekept by locking up the supply of computing infrastructure. With 3 players it's pretty easy to collude even if indirectly. They can't burn trillions forever. Nvidia's 75% profit margins are not sustainable forever.
It's too valuable of a tech to remain in the control of any corporation. Open models will find a way. Compute requirements will go down and there will be many of us making it a priority to transform the tech into something open like the Linux kernel vs a closed cloud tech.
Nvidia has 75% profit margins right now. That won't continue forever. It may take quite some time but it will normalize.