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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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623 points magicalhippo | 4 comments | 07 Jan 25 04:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Karupan ◴[07 Jan 25 04:41 UTC] No.42619320[source]▶
I feel this is bigger than the 5x series GPUs. Given the craze around AI/LLMs, this can also potentially eat into Apple’s slice of the enthusiast AI dev segment once the M4 Max/Ultra Mac minis are released. I sure wished I held some Nvidia stocks, they seem to be doing everything right in the last few years!
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dagmx ◴[07 Jan 25 04:45 UTC] No.42619339[source]▶
I think the enthusiast side of things is a negligible part of the market.

That said, enthusiasts do help drive a lot of the improvements to the tech stack so if they start using this, it’ll entrench NVIDIA even more.

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1. option ◴[07 Jan 25 04:57 UTC] No.42619397[source]▶
today’s enthusiast, grad student, hacker is tomorrow’s startup founder, CEO, CTO or 10x contributor in large tech company
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2. Mistletoe ◴[07 Jan 25 07:31 UTC] No.42620210[source]▶
> tomorrow’s startup founder, CEO, CTO or 10x contributor in large tech company

Do we need more of those? We need plumbers and people that know how to build houses. We are completely full on founders and executives.

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3. davrosthedalek ◴[07 Jan 25 12:15 UTC] No.42621629[source]▶
We might not, but Nvidia would certainly like it.
4. hatboat ◴[08 Jan 25 12:00 UTC] No.42633300[source]▶
If they're already an "enthusiast, grad student, hacker", are they likely to choose the "plumbers and people that know how to build houses" career track?

True passion for one's career is rare, despite the clichéd platitudes ecouraging otherwise. That's something we should encourage and invest in regardless of the field.