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[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, it does, but at the price needed to make it profitable, it’s not desirable.

LLMs are not useless; they serve a purpose. They just are nowhere near as clever as we expect them to be based on calling them AI. However, body is investing billions for an email writing assistant.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Price is essentially zero if you just run it locally

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I dunno about that... Very small models (2-8B) sure but if you want more than a handful of tokens per second on a large model (R1 is 671B) you're looking at some very expensive hardware that also comes with a power bill.

Even a 20-70B model needs a big chunky new graphics card or something fancy like those new AMD AI max guys and a crapload of ram.

Granted you don't need a whole datacenter, but the price is far from zero.

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