In all fairness there are probably a lot of folks who picked one up for around MSRP (even if one of the board partner cards with an MSRP 10-15% over the FE).
Local inference will have a boom of cheap, powerful, and available cards at some point (even if it isn’t until 2028/2029). At some point the hyperscalers, and frontier labs, will face the capex problems that everyone talks about, and NVidia, AMD, Apple, and Intel will want to keep selling products.
Powerful, by today’s standard, local inference needs to be accessible to really unlock the “AI” economy long term. It’s just like how the move from mainframes to the PC 40ish years ago unlocked the “computer revolution.”
Local inference will have a boom of cheap, powerful, and available cards at some point (even if it isn’t until 2028/2029). At some point the hyperscalers, and frontier labs, will face the capex problems that everyone talks about, and NVidia, AMD, Apple, and Intel will want to keep selling products.
Powerful, by today’s standard, local inference needs to be accessible to really unlock the “AI” economy long term. It’s just like how the move from mainframes to the PC 40ish years ago unlocked the “computer revolution.”