Re:Upload Your RAM
by lgl on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:53AM
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Surely this is a joke or sarcastic comment?
They absolutely can't do what, or more of what the biggest models can do. There's nothing frontier about small local Qwen or Gemma models.
2899$ gets you a machine that is just good enough to run some small models, slowly, with terrible context, requires a ton of tinkering and fine tuning, managing and constantly downloading a bunch of huge file blobs, etc.
Partaking those $2899 in most of the large cloud models would bring you much more productivity, much less boilerplate and time spent in setup, etc.
So.. just weird accusing people here of "not partaking" in AI when you're just essentially toying around if you're actually comparing local Qwen and Gemma's with frontier models.
They absolutely can't do what, or more of what the biggest models can do. There's nothing frontier about small local Qwen or Gemma models.
2899$ gets you a machine that is just good enough to run some small models, slowly, with terrible context, requires a ton of tinkering and fine tuning, managing and constantly downloading a bunch of huge file blobs, etc.
Partaking those $2899 in most of the large cloud models would bring you much more productivity, much less boilerplate and time spent in setup, etc.
So.. just weird accusing people here of "not partaking" in AI when you're just essentially toying around if you're actually comparing local Qwen and Gemma's with frontier models.