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it’s equivalent take to laugh at first transformers 9 years ago, because they were shit and hardware requirements were immense.

IMHO it’s a matter of time until we (consumers) will get the hardware (maybe coupled maybe even more novel techniques). Though I expect it will take another 10 years or more.

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The frontier labs will do their best to prevent this from happening. Their financial model won't work if people start running open-weight models on their local hardware.

This is why banning Chinese open-weight AI models is a major policy debate in Washington. The labs can't survive log-term without subsidies, and a ban can act as a subsidy.

I concur, that this could be a possiblity and it definitely seems now.

Though my bet would be, if USA will go ultra protectionist in this regard - in 10-20 years most world will run Chinese LLMs and hardware for this purpose.

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