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

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!

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.

I’m not so sure it’s negligible. My anecdotal experience is that since Apple Silicon chips were found to be “ok” enough to run inference with MLX, more non-technical people in my circle have asked me how they can run LLMs on their macs.

Surely a smaller market than gamers or datacenters for sure.

Yes, but people already had their Macs for others reasons.

No one goes to an Apple store thinking "I'll get a laptop to do AI inference".

my $5k m3 max 128gb disagrees

Doubt it, a year ago useful local LLMs on a Mac (via something like ollama) was barely taking off.

If what you say it's true you were among the first 100 people on the planet who were doing this; which btw, further supports my argument on how extremely rare is that use case for Mac users.