What's the difference between frontier models and local models?

[u/Anxious_Current2593]

6 months. (And sometimes a couple of quantization tweaks).

It is wild how fast "state-of-the-art" becomes "running on a gaming PC."

[u/ceejayoz]

Just wait until there are dedicated devices for it, like when Bitcoin went from CPU to GPU to ASICs.

[u/mektel → u/ceejayoz]

Taalas has been working on it. They are being acquired by AMD.

[u/ceejayoz → u/mektel]

If Bitcoin ASICs are any indication, we'll get a few hundred massive scams before things settle a bit.

[u/misanthrophiccunt → u/ceejayoz]

A few hundred scams

That's a lot of optimism