News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model. Parent comment

Re:Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of... by persedes on Monday June 15, 2026 @11:26AM (#48542680)
Parent was referring to the cost of hardware. I've had colleagues from brazil visit the US and go absolutely crazy at best buy to grab as much hardware as they could (laptops, nintendo switch, etc), because it's prohibitively expensive for them to buy that at home.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of... by dlisboa on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:27PM (#48543626)
It's not "prohibitively" expensive if they managed to pay for flights to the US, hotels and then buy several pieces of hardware. They definitely had more than enough money to buy whatever they wanted in Brazil. It is, however, much more expensive than it should be, which leaves a bad taste in our mouths and means people will find other ways of acquiring some items.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of... by persedes on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:21PM (#48544356)
It was a business trip, but yeah.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of... by matheusmoreira on Monday June 15, 2026 @02:56PM (#48545511)
Yeah. Brazilians go nuts when they see US prices. Every family member who travels to the US is showered with purchase requests. Anything they manage to bring back without being taxed essentially receives a 50% discount.
[ Parent | on HN ]