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Jim Don Bob's avatar

Let's hear more about Daddy!

Jim Don Bob's avatar

Very cool. How much did it cost? Why do you "need" such a powerful machine?

Matt Basta's avatar

Too much! Especially with the nand shortage and high GPU prices. I don't "need" it but if you want to do *anything* with a model larger than 32B parameters, you either need to accept heavy quantization or it's going to be so slow that it's not useful. I could, of course, rent a machine in the cloud, but that precludes you from doing other interesting hardware things and getting close to the bare metal.