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No datacenter needed now, just run it on your computer. Anything with 12gb+ of vram can run it comfortably at low quants. If they can come out with a good MOE model it will crush the competition. At this current rate of progress, China will out-compete foreign AI development within a year or two.

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[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The big benefit for local models is you can use them to crush through a lot of google searches in one go and find you a good source, its great for people doing scientific research because you can search all the journals you have access to very quickly for relevant info.

This is the only thing I’ve tried to really get an AI model working for, I want it to do some large scale searching and format the info with links to the sources for me to look through. None of the text it writes will end up in my final product but it should be able to do the searching a lot more efficiently than I can myself.

Unfortunately I’ve completely failed to get this to work

[–] lurkerlady@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You might like Proton Mail's Lumo project, I find it useful for quicker searches without needing an account, they use open-weights models only. Unsloth with EXA or setting up searxng-mcp is your other best bet, Unsloth has a desktop app now.