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Powderhorn@beehaw.org 8 hours agoThere are already large local models. It’s a question of having the hardware, which has historically gotten more powerful with each generation. I don’t think it’s going to be phones for quite some time, but on desktop, absolutely.
Feyd@programming.dev 8 hours ago
For business use, laptops without powerful graphics cards have been the norm for quite some time. Do you see businesses deciding to change to desktops to accommodate the power for local models? I think it’s pretty optimistic to think that laptops are going to be that powerful in the next 5 years. The advancement in chip capability has dramatically slowed, and to put them in laptops they’d need to be incredibly more power efficient as well.
jarfil@beehaw.org 42 minutes ago
Keywords: NPU, unified RAM
Apple is doing it, AMD is doing it.
GPUs are an inefficient way of doing inference. They’ve been great for research purposes, into what type of NPU may be the best one, but that’s been answered already for LLMs. Current step is, achieving mass production.
5 years sounds realistic, unless WW3.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 7 hours ago
For the security tradeoff of sensitive data not heading to the cloud for processing? Not all businesses, but many would definitely see value in it. We’re also discussing this as though the options are binary … models could also be hosted on company servers that employees VPN into.