| ▲ | ares623 7 hours ago |
| The labs can't just stop improvements though. They made promises. And the capacity to run the current models are subsidized by those promises. If the promise is broken, then the capacity goes with it. |
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| ▲ | selectodude 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > the capacity goes with it. Sort of. The GPUs exist. Maybe LLM subs can’t pay for electricity plus $50,000 GPUs, but I bet after some people get wiped out, there’s a market there. |
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| ▲ | simianparrot 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Datacenter GPU's have a lifespan of 1-3 years depending on use. So yes they exist, but not for long, unless they go entirely unused. But then they also deprecate in efficiency compared to new hardware extremely fast as well, so their shelf life is severely limited either way. | | |
| ▲ | nsomaru 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Personally I am waiting for the day I can realistically buy a second hand three year old datacentre GPU so I can run Kimi K2 in my shed. Given enough time, not a pipe dream. But 10 years at least. | | | |
| ▲ | soulofmischief 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | At this pace, it won't be many years before the industry is dependent on resource wars in order to sustain itself. |
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| ▲ | wmf 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Maybe those promises can be better fulfilled with products based on current models. |
