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Re:DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal by fulafel on Thursday May 07, 2026 @11:31PM (#48058189)
This seems to be a different discussion than was going on up thread about:

> in the next few years a "good enough" model will run on entry-level hardware

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Re:DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal by wtallis on Thursday May 07, 2026 @11:42PM (#48058256)
Exactly. In the next few years, entry-level hardware will not be advancing beyond 16GB. And anything beyond 32GB will remain decidedly high-end.

And that's for laptops with unified memory. In the desktop space, 8GB discrete GPUs are going to be sticking around for a very long time.

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Re:DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal by bensyverson on Friday May 08, 2026 @07:20PM (#48069970)
I guess we'll find out! I bet all the vendors who supply RAM are looking at the current shortages and thinking "well, it's a shame we could never manufacture more RAM than we currently do."
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