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

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623 points magicalhippo | 1 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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csomar ◴[07 Jan 25 08:03 UTC] No.42620359[source]▶
Am I the only one disappointed by these? They cost roughly half the price of a macbook pro and offer hmm.. half the capacity in RAM. Sure speed matters in AI, but what do I do with speed when I can't load a 70b model.

On the other hand, with a $5000 macbook pro, I can easily load a 70b model and have a "full" macbook pro as a plus. I am not sure I fully understand the value of these cards for someone that want to run personal AI models.

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macawfish ◴[07 Jan 25 08:20 UTC] No.42620448[source]▶
Then buy two and stack them!

Also I'm unfamiliar with macs is there really a MacBook pro with 256GB of RAM?

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csomar ◴[07 Jan 25 08:34 UTC] No.42620521[source]▶
No, macbooks pro cap at 128GB. But, still, they are a laptop. It'll be interesting to see if Apple can offer a good counter for the desktop. The mac pro can go to 192Gb which is closer to the 128Gb Digits + your Desktop machine. At $9299 price tag, it's not too competitive but close.
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1. lr1970 ◴[07 Jan 25 11:57 UTC] No.42621527[source]▶
> It'll be interesting to see if Apple can offer a good counter for the desktop.

Mac Pro [0] is a desktop with M2 Ultra and up to 192GB of unified memory.

[0] https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/