I don’t think that’s the plan and it won’t work if it is, believe it or not I think these corporate soul suckers know that.

Chinese models are literally 75x cheaper than frointer usa models with 85% of the capabilities. Chinese’s models have continually been 3 - 6 months behind frointer models. This will continue to be the case and since Chinese models are generally open anyone with a big server can run them and sell tokens, it’s gonna stay cheap.

I’m pretty sure most LLM providers are making enough money to profit on selling infrence. They only are in the negative from massive spending on hiring the best talent and research/development into new models and the associated hardware/data center build outs to train those new models.

The truth in my opinion is these companies are confident that if they spend enough they will reach a critical threshold where llms are actually intelligent and useful, and that is what they are betting on. Being the first company to make real “Ai” that can self improve.

I’m sure OpenAI and Anthropic will try to charge more because they are soul sucking capitalists but that will only be viable as long as they are sufficiently in the lead from open weight models. I think Anthroptic has already 2x api pricing for their newest hype beast end of the world its so scary advanced Fable 5 model.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i’m on two private trackers that aren’t that hard to get into and I routinely download 10 plus year old 50 - 100 gb files with good seeds. I have never run into something not decently seeded since I went private.

AT&T just bought my fiber provider

This is why torrents are better! I torrent the highest quality files I can find so I’d blow through that 500gb quickly.

while their energy density is much better than that of ICE cars

Ummmm, no? Battery energy density is much worse than the energy density of gas. Electric is better for the environment but what you said is factually incorrect.

Gas has a Energy density (MJ/L) of 34.2 while lithium ion maxes out at ~4.2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

Likely nothing in this case since they aren’t going to be a full sponsor anymore. I believe real full sponsors can have some impact on the direction of feature development but that isn’t bad because it’s open source and adding features large companies want and will pay to have developed in open source tools isn’t bad.

“No generative AI functionality is currently available or planned to be integrated in Blender”

xD now I can’t fix it

This play port is superior and is what is used on most high-end GPUs.

I usually use 4get but I will try this out for fun!

Same, my unraid server is over 40 tb but I only have ~1.5 tb of critical data, being my immich photos and some files. I have an on site and off site raspberry pi with 4tb nvme SSD for nightly backups

Oh my god it’s so cringe, I can only imagine what the prompts are like.

The point is the need for more and more data storage is never going to stop.

It’s good for people who are use to windows and aren’t comfortable with linux yet, it was the first distro I used when I switched to Linux but now I’ve been on Fedora for the past four years or so

I thought you were being facetious and joking lol

“I’d totally switch to Linux if I could install spyware into my kernel”

I used zorin when I first switched like 5 years ago, ended up on fedora not too soon after and haven’t left. It was a good stepping stone for me though.

If loser companies would support it I’d say AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) is the best.

I sorta dig Frame™

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ In this case, my personal experience and the dozens of other people who have agreed with me beg to differ.

Fedora, great blend of bleeding edge and stability. Plus Linus uses it, so what better praise could you get.