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

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623 points magicalhippo | 22 comments | 07 Jan 25 04:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.945s | source | bottom
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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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VikingCoder ◴[07 Jan 25 05:01 UTC] No.42619430[source]▶
If I were NVidia, I would be throwing everything I could at making entertainment experiences that need one of these to run...

I mean, this is awfully close to being "Her" in a box, right?

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1. dagmx ◴[07 Jan 25 05:06 UTC] No.42619453[source]▶
I feel like a lot of people miss that Her was a dystopian future, not an ideal to hit.

Also, it’s $3000. For that you could buy subscriptions to OpenAI etc and have the dystopian partner everywhere you go.

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2. tacticus ◴[07 Jan 25 05:15 UTC] No.42619500[source]▶
they don't miss that part. they just want to be the evil character.
3. t0lo ◴[07 Jan 25 05:24 UTC] No.42619529[source]▶
The dystopian overton window has shifted, didn't you know, moral ambiguity is a win now? :) Tesla was right.
4. VikingCoder ◴[07 Jan 25 05:41 UTC] No.42619627[source]▶
We already live in dystopian hell and I'd like to have Scarlett Johansen whispering in my ear, thanks.

Also, I don't particularly want my data to be processed by anyone else.

5. croes ◴[07 Jan 25 05:44 UTC] No.42619642[source]▶
OpenAI doesn’t make any profit. So either it dies or prices go up. Not to mention the privacy aspect of your own machine and the freedom of choice which models to run
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6. blackoil ◴[07 Jan 25 08:05 UTC] No.42620369[source]▶
> So either it dies or prices go up.

Or efficiency gains in hardware and software catchup making current price point profitable.

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7. int_19h ◴[07 Jan 25 08:12 UTC] No.42620406[source]▶
This is exactly the scenario where you don't want "the cloud" anywhere.
8. nostromo ◴[07 Jan 25 08:34 UTC] No.42620519[source]▶
Fun fact: Her was set in the year 2025.
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9. smt88 ◴[07 Jan 25 11:18 UTC] No.42621356[source]▶
If Silicon Valley could tell the difference between utopias and dystopias, we wouldn't have companies named Soylent or iRobot, and the recently announced Anduril/Palantir/OpenAI partnership to hasten the creation of either SkyNet or Big Brother wouldn't have happened at all.
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10. swat535 ◴[07 Jan 25 12:57 UTC] No.42621870[source]▶
Boring fact: The underlying theme of the movie Her is actually divorce and the destructive impact it has on people, the futuristic AI stuff is just for stuffing!
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11. AnonymousPlanet ◴[07 Jan 25 14:01 UTC] No.42622366{3}[source]▶
The overall theme of Her was human relationships. It was not about AI and not just about divorce in particular.The AI was just a plot device to include a bodyless person into the equation. Watch it again with this in mind and you will see what I mean.
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12. com2kid ◴[07 Jan 25 15:46 UTC] No.42623621[source]▶
OpenAI built a 3 billion dollar business in less than 3 years of a commercial offering.
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13. adolph ◴[07 Jan 25 17:57 UTC] No.42625252{4}[source]▶
The universal theme of Her was the set of harmonics that define what is something and the thresholds, boundaries, windows onto what is not thatthing but someotherthing, even if the thing perceived is a mirror, not just about human relationships in particular. The relationship was just a plot device to make a work of deep philosophy into a marketable romantic comedy.
14. dnissley ◴[07 Jan 25 18:39 UTC] No.42625745[source]▶
Please name the dystopian elements of Her.
15. croes ◴[07 Jan 25 20:33 UTC] No.42627088{3}[source]▶
3 billion revenue and 5 billion loss doesn’t sound like a sustainable business model.
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16. croes ◴[07 Jan 25 20:34 UTC] No.42627105{3}[source]▶
Training data gets mired in expensive and they need constant input otherwise the AI‘s knowledge is outdated
17. vasco ◴[07 Jan 25 21:10 UTC] No.42627519[source]▶
One man's dystopia is another man's dream. There's no "missing" in the moral of a movie, you make whatever you want out of it.
18. VikingCoder ◴[08 Jan 25 01:59 UTC] No.42630094{4}[source]▶
The real question is what the next 3 years look like. If it's another 5 billion burned for 3 billion or less in revenue, that's one thing... But...
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19. VikingCoder ◴[08 Jan 25 02:01 UTC] No.42630110[source]▶
I mean, we still act like a "wild goose chase" is a bad thing.

We still schedule "bi-weekly" meetings.

We can't agree on which way charge goes in a wire.

Have you seen the y-axis on an economists chart?

20. croes ◴[08 Jan 25 07:21 UTC] No.42631889{5}[source]▶
How...
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21. menaerus ◴[08 Jan 25 08:18 UTC] No.42632175{6}[source]▶
Recent report says there are 1M paying customers. At ~30USD for 12 months this is ~3.6B of revenue which kinda matches their reported figures. So to break even at their ~5B costs assuming that they need no further major investment in infrastructure they only need to increase the paying subscriptions from 1M to 2M. Since there are ~250M people who engaged with OpenAI free tier service 2x projection doesn't sound too surreal.
22. com2kid ◴[08 Jan 25 09:24 UTC] No.42632463{4}[source]▶
Rumor has it they run queries at a profit, and most of the cost is in training and staff.

If they is true their path to profitability isn't super rocky. Their path to achieving their current valuation may end up being trickier though!