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Re:Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom by captainbland on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:04PM (#49792622)
They scale with compute so even if today's frontier model equivalents work on future desktop hardware then the big servers will still have bigger and better models.
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Re:Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom by ryanbrunner on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:17PM (#49792784)
The value of those models doesn't necessarily though. To extend the personal computer analogy, a server rack has always been more powerful than the average desktop computer but a personal computer got "good enough" at enough tasks that people just used those instead.
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Re:Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom by jhonof on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:32PM (#49793000)
Yes but at some point there is diminishing returns in model quality. Most people don't need a model that can solve Navier-Stokes to write emails for them.
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