What matters more is if firm’s start using a bundle of American and Chinese models and when they find their feet - how large is the market for frontier?
Frontier has to displace labour one for one at some point or it’s over.
I wonder if the next DS models will also graduate to 5.x, I think I saw they are training up a 10T model, and just raised $12B too
The fact that it basically broke open the local model supremacy was just a nice side effect.
I'm running: https://github.com/peonist-ai/halogen-server with a quant4, PLE offloaded, and it's resident VRAM is 36GB at 265k context.
Shave 10 more GB off and the TAM openai and anthropic are targeting is a lost cause. Local models are what 90% of people will need.
If the world governments can get a handle on the memory cartel, then there's no more moat for most normal humans.
In practice, you will be able to run models a bit bigger than 35B.
38GB of vram resident. more tk/s, more prefill.