brandall10
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
So the theoretical Max would be 680GB/s.
So it depends on what you're doing. Using it for a fun oracle without feeding it too much context per turn? Sure, an older Max chip is great.
As a coding agent doing meaningful work on a sizable project? Compared to a cheap as chips cloud option, it will take an order of magnitude more time to complete.
Marketing really matters here. Sometimes a tool can take off on its own with just a little bit of prodding (hn/reddit announcements and the like), but in this era where there is just way too much choice that is difficult to differentiate, the S/N is just too opaque.
Think about Matt Pocock for a moment - the guy is literally famous for 'his' grill-me skill. A skill. And something he really did not come up with, as the core tenant has been a a prior-art prompt template going back to 2023, but no one seems to question or point that out as he has been so pervasive online promoting this as his invention that it just drowns out any dissent.
I suspect Jev was intended to be an acquisition play and instead OAI said "nah, we're good" literally 2 weeks to the day after its launch. Anthropic and the Chinese labs are almost certainly soon to follow.
They're rumored to be in the early stages of a billion dollar round to value the company at $10B. Best of luck with that.
Historically the Pro doubles the base, the Max doubles the Pro, and the Ultra doubles the Max.
If an M6 ultra were released today it would be 1.36TB/s.
CTO @ stealth AI related startup