For short, frequent hops, it could be practical depending the operating costs. The energy density of current battery tech is rough for aviation, but at least they’re trying.

Surveillance capitalist pinky promises not exploit specific types of data they’re collecting in specific ways. Terms and conditions subject to change once they get enough market share, of course.

Cue the joke about the two economists paying each other with the same $100 bill to eat shit and then celebrating that they increased GDP by $200. Except the way it actually works is that the rest of us eat the shit while the circle jerk has a big wank fest.

You can have paid MicroSlop slop that gives them access to your data for training models or open source CraftSlop slop that doesn’t. Neither works worth a shit, so pick your poison. Either that, or just use slop-free LibreOffice.

Can’t disagree in principle, but of course, the article is pretty idealistic.

Yes, the tech bros want everyone talking about how dangerous AI is so regulations are made to solidify their ownership of what is probably the greatest heist against humanity the world has ever known.

The course of action a lawful and ethical government would take is to shut them down, put the thieves in prison, and demand all of the collected data be deleted since it was taken unlawfully. Of course, we all know that will never happen.

The data is also not going to be forcefully publicized. Even if the dataset were leaked, the sheer size makes it impractical to store and distribute.

Best we can realistically expect is what Chinese companies are already doing where they are opening the weights while keeping their stolen datasets private and under their own control. Not the best option, but at least it does distribute the control the oligarch would otherwise have over the tech. The Chinese companies aren’t publicizing the means of production (their stolen datasets), but they’re at least incrementally less capitalistic than their American counterparts.

If you have a laptop with powerful hardware and a lot of RAM, you should definitely donate it to Sam Altman and buy a LG thin client so you can buy cloud services. Under absolutely no circumstances should you turn an old laptop into a server and self-host instead of giving your money and data to big tech companies.

It makes sense that general purpose hardware would just be a stopgap for data centers who need to run one very specific workload like LLM prefill at the lowest cost possible. Nvidia’s exact target market who want general purpose hardware for a variety of tasks like running games, Blender, video editors, and some ML models now can’t afford it. Not to worry, though. Even if a B200 sucks at prefill compared to purpose-built hardware, I’m sure a lot of us would happily buy one or two for like $100 each.

Ah, nice! The only ones I saw otherwise were going for closer to $2k.

Team Red is not the Nvidia protest option we thought it was, especially since AMD is now a data center-first company too. I bought a 7900 XTX a few months ago because it was the only 24GB card still under $1k, but now the price has doubled.

Better quit messing with Pooh Bear, or Sam and Dario’s skeletons are going to come Texas two-steppin’ out of the closet next.

You made number go down, which is the one thing that one thing that won’t be tolerated from a CEO. Enjoy your billions and have a pleasant ride down on your golden parachute.

This is the only set of benchmarks I can find at the moment: https://offloop.org/learn/qwen-4-max-preview-test. No idea if it’s fake slop or not, but it shows an early preview of Qwen 4 27B as being similar to Sonnet 5.5 on XHigh. Qwen 27B seems to be keeping pace with Sonnet, so this sounds plausible.

Seems he’s a serial cheater and is only now getting caught.

I was lucky enough to get one a few months ago for under $1k before the price doubled. It was the last sanely priced 24GB card, but that didn’t last long. 😭

I’d sure like to see Adobe and their ilk get their comeuppance, so I won’t mind being wrong about this. We shall see.

The square root of -$1.4tn is a more appropriate number.

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Wow, there were a ton of posts asking for Andy Yen’s resignation and now there’s no trace of any of them. So much for transparency. What else are they sweeping under the rug?

Who would’ve thought a country run by Pooh Bear would be so skilled at using honeypots.