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Shawn Wang: belief

2 Aug 2024 Latent Space The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars Recap) + ChatGPT Voice Mode Preview

“Open source is synonymous with local, private, and all the good things that people want. And I think their vision of even running this stuff on CPUs at a very, very fast speed by just being extremely cracked, I think is very understated.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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belief
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2 Aug 2024
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Latent Space

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…Which is nothing at their market cap. Meta's market cap right now is $1.15 trillion because they're down 5%, 11% in the past month. So if you pay $1 billion, you know, that's like 0.01% of your market cap. And they paid $1 billion for WhatsApp and they paid 1% of their market cap on that at the time. That is beyond our pay grade. But the last piece of the GPU-rich-poor wars, so we're going from the super GPU-rich down to the medium GPU-rich and now down to the GPU-poors is on-device models, which is something that people are very, very excited about. So at my conference, Mozilla AI, I think was kind of like the talk of the town there on Llamafile. We had Justine Tunney come in and explain some of the optimizations that they did. And their just general vision for on-device AI. I think that it's basically the second act of Mozilla. Like a lot of good with the open source browser. And obviously then they have since declined because it's very hard to keep up in that field. And Mozilla has had some management issues as well. But now that the operating system is moving to the AI layer, now they're also promoting open source AI there and also private AI. Open source is synonymous with local, private, and all the good things that people want. And I think their vision of even running this stuff on CPUs at a very, very fast speed by just being extremely cracked, I think is very understated. And we should probably try to support it more. And it's just amazing to host these people and see their progress. I think to me the biggest question about on-device, obviously there's a Gemini Nano which is getting shipped with Chrome.…

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