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Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (4 children)

What profit margins? :)

Seriously though, home AI is never going to compete. Few people have PCs in their home any longer and only a tiny subset of those users will fiddle with local models. I'd like to, but I don't have the compute. :(

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    If hardware prices weren’t insane, we would have prosumer level turnkey home AI already.

    Now it’s just for hobbyists with too much money.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    And I don't see that changing. :( And in no case are loads of people going to get into local AI. Lotta nerds around here, but Joe on the street barely knows what AI is, and he certainly doesn't have a PC any longer.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    It’d be Apple packaging local AI capabilities to something like an Apple TV Pro or any other manufacturer with enough integration.

    Google might do it too, but less private - ad revenue you know.

    But with these prices a decent local AI box would be closer to 1k, ain’t nobody buying that.

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