sunman42

forgot username said:

Before this administration, I would never have seriously suggested the following, but there are no good government rules anymore, or anyone to enforce them. He could be waiting for the price to drop low enough, and then have Musk and/or the Trump kids buy it.

Even if the companies have a defense, they would still have to deal with costly litigation if prosecuted by the next administration. Additionally, considering Trump’s bullying behavior, it wouldn’t be surprising if he later changes his mind and attacks the companies if they do something that displeases him. 

Isn’t this irrelevant? Hasn’t the Chinese government made it clear that they will never turn over the secret sauce algorithm that is central to the user experience? I know there’s one or two very wealthy white males with friends in VCwho think they could buy everything else (including the user data) and build a social media that the kids will flock to in droves, but does anyone with any sense believe that?

blastdoor said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

blastdoor said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

blastdoor said:

Even though the Mac Studio with M3 Ultra seems like a great option for LLM usage and development, there is a big drawback in terms of cost.

But compared to what? How much would you have to spend to do the same job on a PC?

This was actually covered in the video. You can rent a ton of server time for the cost of a maxed out Mac Studio. So if you are just using it for development or general LLM usage then it really doesn't make sense financially. That said, the maker of the video also gave examples of why it would be worth it to pay to run an LLM locally. Specially when it has to do with privacy.

My question isn’t the cost to rent but the cost to buy.

If that was the intent of your questions then your questions were really poorly worded as buying didn't come up at all.

Anyway, to answer your question, you could build a PC that could to this cheeper than you could buy a Mac Studio. The big deal about Deepseek was that it ran on consumer hardware. 

There are many versions and the 671 billion parameter version is not going to run on anything resembling a standard PC. So I think you just don't know. 

Well, one not too shabby version ran on my *cough* poor, old (yeah, 18 month old) M2 Ultra Studio with a mere 128 Gbyte of memory. And yet, it was still able to give reasonable answers to two of the burning questions of the last ~ 50 years: (1) What is the air speed of an unencumbered swallow? and (2) Lakes or hamantashen? It appeared to be familiar with both source texts and more recent work online. Curiosity satisfied, and not quite certain what, if anything, it might have been communicating to a mother ship somewhere, I deleted DeepSeek-r1:<whatever>. Who knows, might be the last time I ever mean to ask an AI anything.

"Apple's ad was the first one where you thought yes. I would do that. I would use that feature."

Could you please tell us which feature or features you felt that way about?

Aside from being raised to be hyperskeptical of anything said in an ads (and learned experience to exercise at least some skepticism about claims made in a keynote, reality distortion fields notwithstanding), I didn't have the author's reaction to the planned features of Apple Intelligence. I'm not saying that others may not have radically different reactions. I just want to know what the features that evoked them were in the author's case.

In actual experience, I've found Apple Intelligence features as rolled out of no particular use to me or downright annoying (I'm looking at you, email "sorting"), and as a personal preference (once again, others may feel differently), I don't want to share anything with ChatGPT or any other LLM, thanks, so that "feature" was always going to be turned off.

My iPhone is not new enough to offer Apple Intelligence, but neither my iPad Pro nor my desktop Mac have raised Apple Intelligence from the "No, thanks" grave of being switched off after OS updates on those systems, despite reports of that happening to other folks. May Apple Intelligence is good for something, after all? Namely, sensing when it's not wanted.... for some users.

phoenix1386 said:

The connectivity problem isn’t Bose’s. It’s Apple hobbling other products and you know it. If you don’t, you don’t deserve this post and platform you’re dispensing falsehood from.  

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Provide one or more credible references or, please, withdraw this post.

Pema said:

Luis.A.Masanti said:

This is a typical… Lord William… and/or AI's editors… of bad news attracts page views… aka ad revenues.

Microsoft ‘invested’ $8 Billions 14 years ago… to buy tech and system… in which they bases the actual Team offerings.

It would be like saying that Apple ‘blew’ $3B to buy Drew's company… to build up Apple Music streaming service.

I get your comment. But going further than that, MS paid $12.5 Billion to purchase Nokia which became Windows Phone. What happened with that? 

A learning experience, like Zune.