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Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

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Re: Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

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Post by roarcher »

> In order to keep prices low and quality high, we don't offer any customization to the box or ordering process. If you aren't capable of ordering through the website, I'm sorry but we won't be able to help.

Has this guy never worked on a B2B product before? Nobody is going to order a $10 million piece of infrastructure through your website's order form. And they are definitely going to want to negotiate something, even if it's just a warranty. And you'll do it because they're waving a $10 million check in your face.

The tone of this website is arrogant to the point of being almost hostile. The guy behind this seems to think that his name carries enough weight to dictate terms like this, among other things like requiring candidates to have already contributed to his product to even be considered for a job. I would be extremely surprised if anyone except him thinks he's that important.

Re: Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

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Post by _2d30 »

jgarzik wrote: post #217

Skeptical of their engineering, with replies to questions like this: https://x.com/jgarzik/status/2031312666036146460?s=20

They answered your question with a pretty specific uptime target. Calling it a dodge and then moving the goalposts with a new question as your follow up doesn’t speak to you acting in good faith.

Re: Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

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Post by jrflowers »

roarcher wrote: post #221

> In order to keep prices low and quality high, we don't offer any customization to the box or ordering process. If you aren't capable of ordering through the website, I'm sorry but we won't be able to help. Has this guy never worked on a B2B product before? Nobody is going to order a $10 million piece of infrastructure through your website's order form. And they are definitely going to want to negotiate something ,…

I imagine that the FAQ might get updated when there’s actually a $10M machine for sale

Re: Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

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Post by wmf »

roarcher wrote: post #221

> In order to keep prices low and quality high, we don't offer any customization to the box or ordering process. If you aren't capable of ordering through the website, I'm sorry but we won't be able to help. Has this guy never worked on a B2B product before? Nobody is going to order a $10 million piece of infrastructure through your website's order form. And they are definitely going to want to negotiate something ,…

He's not actually selling the exabox yet. It sounds like he put up a hypothetical config to see if anyone is interested.

Re: Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

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Post by scratchyone »

_2d30 wrote: post #222
jgarzik wrote: post #217

Skeptical of their engineering, with replies to questions like this: https://x.com/jgarzik/status/2031312666036146460?s=20

They answered your question with a pretty specific uptime target. Calling it a dodge and then moving the goalposts with a new question as your follow up doesn’t speak to you acting in good faith.

tbh they really didn't, tinygrad's was clearly a joke response. they were not providing a real uptime target.

Re: Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

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Post by roarcher »

jrflowers wrote: post #223
roarcher wrote: post #221

> In order to keep prices low and quality high, we don't offer any customization to the box or ordering process. If you aren't capable of ordering through the website, I'm sorry but we won't be able to help. Has this guy never worked on a B2B product before? Nobody is going to order a $10 million piece of infrastructure through your website's order form. And they are definitely going to want to negotiate something ,…

I imagine that the FAQ might get updated when there’s actually a $10M machine for sale

Maybe. Frankly I'd be very surprised if any business ordered a $65k machine that way either.

Re: Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

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Post by Aurornis »

mellosouls wrote: post #220

Where is the 120B documented? This seems to be an editorialized title. Edit: found a third party referencing the claim but it doesn't belong in the title here I think: Meet the World’s Smallest ‘Supercomputer’ from Tiiny AI; A Machine Bold Enough to Run 120B AI Models Right in the Palm of Your Hand https://wccftech.com/meet-the-worlds-smallest-supercomputer-...

That third party link is from a different company (Tiiny with an extra i)

Now I'm wondering if the HN title was submitted by some AI bot that couldn't tell the difference.

Re: Tinybox – A powerful computer for deep learning

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Post by jmspring »

Tinygrad devices are interesting, I wish I have screen captures - but their prices have gone up and some specs like RAM have gone down.

A single box with those specs without having to build/configure (the red and green) - I could see being useful if you had $ and not time to build/configure/etc yourself.

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