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Re:The Dead Economy Theory by teeray on Saturday May 30, 2026 @02:27PM (#48339258)
I think the parent is speculating that there may be an order of magnitude improvement in the cheap / OSS model space such that one running on a piddling desktop cluster could match or exceed the capabilities of the current SOTA on billion-dollar datacenter.
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Re:The Dead Economy Theory by palmotea on Sunday May 31, 2026 @12:29AM (#48343037)
> I think the parent is speculating that there may be an order of magnitude improvement in the cheap / OSS model space such that one running on a piddling desktop cluster could match or exceed the capabilities of the current SOTA on billion-dollar datacenter.

And then they take that model, put it in a billion-dollar datacenter, and kick your desktop cluster's ass with it.

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