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lenerdenatoryesterday at 1:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

Now how am I supposed to develop Electron apps and use Chrome?

In all seriousness, though, as one of the uninitiated, what would be the value of hosting LLMs on a machine like this that has a lot of memory that you pay for up front versus some sort of VPC-based approach?


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robotresearcheryesterday at 5:30 PM

One factor is that you may not be in a position to push your working data to a third party service, for security or legal reasons.

groundzeros2015yesterday at 3:19 PM

Have you seen how much GPUs cost to rent? Note that this memory is shared between CPU and GPU.