Comment by TrackerFF
21 hours ago
With the wild ram prices, which btw are probably going to last out 2026, I expect 8 GB ram to be the new standard going on forward.
32 GB ram will be for enthusiasts with deep pockets, and professionals. Anything over that, exclusively professionals.
The conspiracy theorist inside me is telling me that big AI companies like OpenAI would rather see that people are using their puny laptops as terminals / shells only, to reach sky-based models, than to let them have beefy laptops and local models.
I don’t believe in conspiracies but I do believe in incentives sometimes lining up. Now that there is a RAM heavy cloud application, cloud providers are suddenly in direct competition with consumers for scarce resources, with the winner being able to control where people run their models.
Not if a few investigations into the foundries and their datacenter deals stops that.