Amazon's Jeff Bezos once revealed how he thinks of local PC hardware as antiquated, ready to be replaced by cloud options. Will DRAM prices make it come true?
Once the llm hype dies down and everything pre Blackwell/hopper gets deprecated there will be a phenomenal, really truly hard to comprehend, amount of processing power out there that can’t be used by normal people in their homes comfortably or really safely but also isn’t economical for capital to use for llms and image generation.
subscription based cloud computing is how the product of an incredibly resource hungry world economy doesn’t just get thrown away in 2028.
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Once the llm hype dies down and everything pre Blackwell/hopper gets deprecated there will be a phenomenal, really truly hard to comprehend, amount of processing power out there that can’t be used by normal people in their homes comfortably or really safely but also isn’t economical for capital to use for llms and image generation.
subscription based cloud computing is how the product of an incredibly resource hungry world economy doesn’t just get thrown away in 2028.