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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by renecito on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @06:05PM (#42312671)
> ... local generative AI lunch

I agree, just for my PC, something that'd enable small devs to create interesting foundation model apps that'd deploy to users using this local AI cards to run these new Apps.

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Re:Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphi... by davrosthedalek on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @06:49PM (#42313014)
There might be an hen-egg problem if the apps end up requiring a 128Gb AI accelerator card. You only get the card if there are apps to run, and you only develop the apps if the cards are wide-spread. With so much RAM, the cards will not be let's-through-them-into-a-cheap-build cheap.

I think there have to be a couple of killer apps that run "OK" with CPU or GPU, but would run tremendously better with such a card.

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