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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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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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qwertox ◴[07 Jan 25 05:11 UTC] No.42619479[source]▶
You could have said the same about gamers buying expensive hardware in the 00's. It's what made Nvidia big.
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Cumpiler69 ◴[07 Jan 25 06:51 UTC] No.42620002[source]▶
There's a lot more gamers than people wanting to play with LLms at home.
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anonylizard ◴[07 Jan 25 07:04 UTC] No.42620074[source]▶
There's a titanic market with people wanting some uncensored local LLM/image/video generation model. This market extremely overlaps with gamers today, but will grow exponentially every year.
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otabdeveloper4 ◴[07 Jan 25 10:59 UTC] No.42621277[source]▶
> There's a titanic market with people wanting some uncensored local LLM/image/video generation model.

No. There's already too much porn on the internet, and AI porn is cringe and will get old very fast.

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1. JohnBooty ◴[07 Jan 25 14:15 UTC] No.42622503{3}[source]▶
I think there are a lot of non-porn uses. I see a lot of YouTube thumbnails that seem AI generated, but feature copyrighted stuff.

(example: a thumbnail for a YT video about a video game, featuring AI-generated art based on that game. because copyright reasons, in my very limited experience Dall-E won't let you do that)

I agree that AI porn doesn't seem a real market driver. With 8 billion people on Earth I know it has its fans I guess, but people barely pay for porn in the first place so I reallllly dunno how many people are paying for AI porn either directly or indirectly.

It's unclear to me if AI generated video will ever really cross the "uncanny valley." Of course, people betting against AI have lost those bets again and again but I don't know.