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But the 16 is meant to be a chonky desktop replacement with a giant GPU enclosure on the back. Just by virtue of what it is, it's never going to feel very nice.
The author's other option to buy being a MacBook tells me they neglected to do their research on what they were buying.
What they really wanted was a Framework 14! It basically IS a MacBook with replaceable components and full repairability.
and that's AFTER they changed the names of Personal and Work. Before that, you'd have Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams. One was purple with a white T and the other was white with a purple T.
If you tried to login with the personal version, it would error-out but not give any indication you may be using the wrong version. Let's be real. NO ONE is using Teams in their personal life. /rant
They're just infuriating on every level when it comes to naming things.
If that same vendor goes down because Cloudflare went down, oh well. Most already know and won't bother to ask when your site will be back up
Take KDE for example. It's easy to argue they've accomplished MORE than Mozilla has in the last decade.
Their desktop ships with every Steam Deck (along with some niche laptop manufacturers) and they have a vast ecosystem of applications. Albeit some more rapidly developed than others.
Their structure is entirely different than Mozilla so it's hardly a direct comparison. But the main point is that Mozilla's traditional corporate structure seems to be a millstone.
They could have stashed most of their Google funding and kept a solid team of passionate maintainers paid in perpetuity. Goodwill could have volunteers contributing directly to Firefox, instead of forking it.
The most logical future of AI is strictly on-device, capable enough to understand the user and making sense of the algorithmic-anarchy that is our phone.
THAT is something exciting and practical, that doesn't require magical-thinking to desire.
The R&D is running on hopes that increasing the magnitude (yes, actual magnitudes) of their models will eventually hit a miracle that makes their company explode in value and power. They can't explain what that could even look like... but they NEED evermore exorbitant amounts of funding flowing in.
This truly isn't a normal ratio of research-to-return.
Luckily, what we do have already is kinda useful and condensing models does show promise. In 5 years I doubt we'll have the post-labor dys/utopia we're being hyped up for. But we may have some truly badass models that can run directly on our phones.
Like you said, Llama and local inference is cheap. So that's the most logical direction all of this is taking us.
If these companies plan to stay afloat, they have to actually pay for the tens of billions they've spent at some point. That's what the parent comment meant by "free AI"