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There's a lot of work being put in to make LLMs run on consumer hardware, albeit it's being done by the open source community and not the companies themselves.
by dpacmittal 3y ago
There's a lot of work being put in to make LLMs run on consumer hardware, albeit it's being done by the open source community and not the companies themselves.
- rapsey 3y agoApple is most definitely working on running them on iPhones.
- bayindirh 3y agoThey are already running some of the Siri stuff completely offline and on device, AFAIK. Also, they have tons of image related AI infrastructure running on iPhones already.
- bayindirh 3y agoI mean, for the training part. Inference is easy (relative to training). Even my 3 year old camera can do real-time eye/face-tracking for humans and mammals via a real-time neural network running on a dedicated low power DSP.
- willis936 3y agoThe consumer hardware is made by the same company and there's little competition. Rather than undercut the price of commercial hardware, what commercial applications for GPUs has done is raise the price floor of consumer GPUs. The companies are not undercutting themselves. It's profit city.
- bayindirh 3y agoI think AI accelerators in ARM based systems will be start to eat that green company from below. Even Intel's bottom of the barrel N95/N100 has accelerators now.