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192 points redohmy | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 02:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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hypeatei ◴[21 Nov 25 21:56 UTC] No.46009445[source]▶
Well, patience as a consumer might pay off in the next year or so when the music stops and hyperscalers are forced to dump their inventories.

There still isn't a clear path to profitability for any of these AI products and the capital expenditure has been enormous.

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PaulKeeble ◴[21 Nov 25 22:32 UTC] No.46009810[source]▶
Its a bit of a shame these AI GPUs don't actually have displayport/hdmi output ports because they would make for nice cheap and powerful gaming GPUs with a lot of VRAM, they would potentially be really good graphics cards.

Will just have to settle for insanely cheap second hand DDR5 and NVMe drives I guess.

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sowbug ◴[21 Nov 25 23:35 UTC] No.46010387[source]▶
I wouldn't mind my own offline Gemini or ChatGPT 5. But even if the hardware and model were free, I don't know how I'd afford the electricity.
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1. mitthrowaway2 ◴[22 Nov 25 02:08 UTC] No.46011409[source]▶
If you can't afford the electricity to afford to run the model on free hardware, you'd certainly never be able to afford the subscription to the same product as a service!

But anyway, the trick is to run it in the winter and keep your house warm.