yeah it's kind of the point. they're pedagogical tools. they give you the full recipe for building it from scratch or fine-tuning it beyond what it is.

but i'm prepared to be surprised, maybe they'll conjure up something standalone useful this time

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dofm 5 hours ago | parent [-]

They have an incentive to produce a more finished model to go with the launch of the RTX Spark laptops, I guess.

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nl 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Not really - you pay for the hardware. Everyone else already is building models for Spark hardware.

	▲	dofm 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think their entire pitch about local AI is best demonstrated with their own model that they can optimise for it, and the shape of this model seems optimised for the smaller RTX chips. Indeed, this model appears to be part of their launch picture: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/local-ai-rtx-spark-laptops-sof...