The insane AI push is purely driven by fear of being left behind.
No one is actually stopping to ask whether it is all worth it.
It’s the like a high IBM manager once said during a presentation : “We are gonna outsource to india. The competition is doing it too, so it’s a good decission!”
CEOs be like:
Ai bubble burst will be worst then the dot com bubble
The term that you are looking for is a “greater fool”.
The real problem isn’t investments in AI. It’s that they don’t know WTF they’re doing!
Huge companies are spending millions of dollars on AI services they don’t know how to use and aren’t even aware of cheaper and superior alternatives.
Just buy some AI hardware your damned self already!
GLM-5 was just released and is at something like 95% parity with the latest models from Big AI. That means for merely a few thousand dollars you can get the same damned service for a fraction of the cost. A single Nvidia DGX spark can handle the AI requests for hundreds of employees simultaneously and there’s free, open source tools that automatically distribute requests across a cluster of the things.
Yet here we are: Businesses are so used to the Chicago School of Economics methods that they’d rather spend a million dollars a month on a service than a one-time, mere thousands of dollars cost on hardware they have to run and maintain themselves because “it’s not a core business function.”
Sounds like a potential avenue to profit for someone who knows about these things. I’d bet that a majority of the smaller companies that could really utilize this are simply ignorant about the possibilities. Could be an “AI integration consultant” or something lol
Can any of this be run on say a 9070XT or 5070TI?
ya I run Llama, good shit.
I smell kompromat here…
What would happen to me if I told my boss, hey, this project is an expensive morass with no perceived benefit, but it’s already eaten a lot of money and time so we might as well keep going? I don’t think I will get a golden parachute on my way out.
