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> Helping people write word docs, recipes, and emails isn't going to justify $15K per month subscriptions either. Those things can all be done today on a $250
by apitman 3mo ago
> Helping people write word docs, recipes, and emails isn't going to justify $15K per month subscriptions either.
Those things can all be done today on a $250 used video card and pennies of electricity
- root_axis 3mo agoNot really. Models that can run on a $250 card may be able to produce a decent word doc sometimes, but the fidelity of such models is so poor that it's no longer very attractive for general use on those types of tasks.
- andrekandre 3mo agoi might have agreed with you 4 months ago, but today with open source models i am surprised as anyone with the progress compared to frontier... so much so that i also picked up one of those $250 cards!
- gf000 3mo agoThen I buy a very expensive GPU rack and timeshare it with a couple of friends.
- apitman 3mo agoHave you tried qwen3.6-27b or Gemma 4? gemma4-26b-a4b is particularly impressive for its balance of speed and performance