Comment by matheusmoreira
3 hours ago
The costs are so staggering it's becoming clear we're going to be priced out of owning computers altogether. Self-hosting frontier models is a corporation's choice, not an individual's.
3 hours ago
The costs are so staggering it's becoming clear we're going to be priced out of owning computers altogether. Self-hosting frontier models is a corporation's choice, not an individual's.
Don't worry, you'll be able to rent your next computer: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/07/apple-upgrade-launche...
It's not like people ever owned iPhones to begin with. They're Apple's computers, Apple's just generously allowing their customers to use them, and only on their terms. A monthly iPhone subscription is just the end game.
You will nothing, and you'll be happy.
If the memory price don't go down anymore, we could say that we are already priced out.
The memory prices put computers into the same category as cars. Expensive but still realistic.
It's these 200kUSD+ nodes with a dozen or more data center class GPUs that are killing the self-hosting dream. The cheapest nodes are is in the same price category as literal houses.
Either we get some competition in this space, or computing will go back to their roots as ivory tower big iron.