I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of the end-times-fascist coalition. One thing that stood out
  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m also impressed with GLM-5.3-Flash. This is similar to Claude Opus 4.8. It’s much smaller and cheaper than GLM-5.3, and still incredibly capable. It’s also actually feasible for an individual person to get hardware to run it, like if you can one day get your hands on a Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM.

    512 GB of RAM?!

    My brother in christ I don’t even have 12 GB of ram! I don’t even have 512GB of SSD storage!

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It looks like one can’t get a 512GB Mac Studio until the end of the month, so right now, nobody does.

  • zebidiah@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’ve preferred Chinese alternatives since they became available. Fuck clammy Sam Altman and Wario, and I don’t really give a shit otf the Chinese know I can’t write my own yaml

    The tech is legitimately cool, but American AI CEOs are unbearable cunts that only make hype

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    It’s also actually feasible for an individual person to get hardware to run it, like if you can one day get your hands on a Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM.

    From the article.

    Apple announced the M5 Ultra Mac Studio on August 26, 2026, with pre-orders open today and shipping on September 22. The headline number for local AI is 512GB of unified memory at 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth, starting at $5,499.

    https://modelfit.io/blog/mac-studio-m5-ultra-512gb-local-llm/

    Can’t find any for sale, because it seems completely unavailable at the moment. That aside, I wouldn’t call a price point of $5500 USD ‘feasible’.

    • wintermute@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’m pretty sure it has to be way more than $5500 for the 512GB model. By boss bought a couple (older models) to run local inference at work, and he paid like $20K each.

    • zebidiah@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Ehhh if it’s a hobby you’re really into it’s not a crazy amount, I spent way more than that on motorcycles just for shits and giggles, 5k of photography equipment is a pretty small and sad pile, same with hi-fi, fishing, watches, bicycles etc.