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

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

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Post by numba888 »

Karupan wrote: post #6

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 sure wished I held some Nvidia stocks, they seem to be doing everything right in the last few years!

They propelled on unexpected LLM boom. But plan 'A' was robotics in which NVidia invested a lot for decades. I think their time is about to come, with Tesla's humanoids for 20-30k and Chinese already selling for $16k.

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Post by swalsh »

timmg wrote: post #247

One thing I didn't see mentioned: this would be a good motivation for Nvidia to release "open weights" models. Just like Mac OS is free when you buy a Mac, having the latest high-quality LLM for free that just happens to run well on this box is a very interesting value-prop. And Nvidia definitely has the compute to make it happen.

They already do release open weight models, in this very keynote he released some of the bigget open weight models yet: https://huggingface.co/collections/nvidia/cosmos-6751e884dc1...

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Post by pjmlp »

mycall wrote: post #255
pjmlp wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More like, WSL1 was "Linux API on top of NT kernel picoprocesses", WSL2 is "Linux VM on top of Hyper-V"

I wish WSL1 was open sourced

Picoprocesses are based on Drawbridge research, so at least there is some reading about how it all works,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/wsl/windows-...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/under-the-hood-of-microsofts-w...

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

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Post by nimish »

rbanffy wrote: post #233
Karupan wrote: post #6

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!

This is something every company should make sure they have: an onboarding path. Xeon Phi failed for a number of reasons, but one where it didn't need to fail was availability of software optimised for it. Now we have Xeons and EPYCs, and MI300C's with lots of efficient cores, but we could have been writing software tailored for those for 10 years now. Extracting performance from them would be a solved problem at this…

1000% all these ai hardware companies will fail if they don't have this. You must have a cheap way to experiment and develop. Even if you want to only sell a $30000 datacenter card you still need a very low cost way to play.

Sad to see big companies like intel and amd don't understand this but they've never come to terms with the fact that software killed the hardware star

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Post by GaryNumanVevo »

Karupan wrote: post #6

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 bet $100k on NVIDIA stocks ~7 years ago, just recently closed out a bunch of them

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Post by diggan »

paxys wrote: post #260
gavi wrote: post #243

this image seems to be AI Generated - :-) https://s3.amazonaws.com/cms.ipressroom.com/219/files/20250/... Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-puts-grace-blackwe...

The text on the screen is an obvious giveaway.

Damn, you're right. I didn't even consider looking at the monitor itself as "They can't be so lazy they don't even use a real screenshot" while faking the rest kind of makes sense, otherwise you need a studio setup.

Never underestimate how lazy companies with a ~$3 trillion market cap can be.

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Post by technofiend »

Karupan wrote: post #6

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!

Will there really be a mac mini wirh Max or Ultra CPUs? This feels like somewhat of an overlap with the Mac Studio.

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Post by kelsey98765431 »

moralestapia wrote: post #222
Karupan wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Cumpiler69 wrote: post #92
anonylizard wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How big is that market you claim? Local LLM image generation already exists out off the box on latest Samsung flagship phones and it's mostly a Gimmick that gets old pretty quickly. Hardly comparable to gaming in terms of market size and profitablity. Plus, YouTube and the Google images is already full of AI generated slop and people are already tired of it. "AI fatigue" amongst majority of general consumers is a doc…

> Gaming fatigues is not.

It is. You may know it as the "I prefer to play board games (and feel smugly superior about it) because they're ${more social, require imagination, $whatever}" crowd.

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