draginol
Joined 6 months ago
Joined 6 months ago
Look at Slashdot for example, it was once so popular that any site it linked to could be "slashdotted" from all the traffic. Now people go elsewhere. YouTube, TikTok, Reddit.
How do you even value a company when we don't even know if GPT-6 will be made available to the general public?
What's worse is that this is probably going to get worse. My angel investment group is getting inundated with pitches that amount to building an RX-6000 with 96GB of RAM and installing a local model to do "thing X".
So even if the OpenAI's of the world stop trying to use up all the RAM, you're going to have thousands of start-ups pushing local models.
AI is confidently wrong a lot. And so you can imagine a lot of execs thinking the AI can do a lot more than it really can.
Not to do a "The Amiga was ahead of its time" thing but as a reminder, 68000 has a flat 24-bit address.
A model like GLM-5.2 being available as GGUF, usable through llama.cpp/Ollama/vLLM/SGLang/LM Studio, and wrapped for local agent workflows changes the category. It stops being an impressive open model exists and starts becoming this is something a small team can actually put into its development stack.
For instance, company buys an RX6000 setup for say $15k total. They could use this for handling data heavy sifting that would otherwise be a lot of Claude tokens.
It doesn't need to be as good as frontier-best. Just good enough.
I could see a business of people packaging this and handing it to companies who want Help Desk bots without any extra setup.
I mean, anyone here could have a decision maker just return a random number. Fast and easy.
The question really is how GOOD is it?