The next few years are going to be interesting.
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@fromjason Isn’t Nvidia doing something similar with Nemotron? Albeit you can’t lug a GPU rig to the coffee shop, so they wouldn’t really be competing in the same space
@kmck they are begrudgingly, I think. Nvidia's business goal is to capture those already interested in on-device AI, but not generate new interest.
Nvidia is like a reverse Microsoft, they're a chip company with AI software partners. They won't do anything to hurt those partners' business model.
Microsoft is a software company with hardware partners. MS has its Surface line, but it's careful not to harm Dell's business.
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@kmck they are begrudgingly, I think. Nvidia's business goal is to capture those already interested in on-device AI, but not generate new interest.
Nvidia is like a reverse Microsoft, they're a chip company with AI software partners. They won't do anything to hurt those partners' business model.
Microsoft is a software company with hardware partners. MS has its Surface line, but it's careful not to harm Dell's business.
@kmck Nemotron exists only so much as it needs to exist to keep some other local model from running away with the market.
Apple, conversely, wants local AI to succeed because it's a local computing company and it doesn't have some network of partners it needs to keep happy.
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The M-series breathed new life into the non-gaming, high-end laptop market. That's important beyond just nice to have. The M series is single-handedly holding back a thin-client renaissance.
In 2026, in a sans-M Series world, centralized compute by way of premium-material ChromeBooks, looks like the future of computing.
None of this to say we should all go out and buy an M5 MBP tonight to support decentralized compute. Go buy a Framework PC, same idea. Just that this is a fragile future.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm starting The Centre For Decentralized Compute, or the CDC if you will. I am accepting donations.
No but for real, I think there should be some sort of organized opposition to centralizing computational power.
Also, maybe there should be more marketing around the idea of decentralized compute. All the elements for a great marketing campaign are there. You have a cause people would care about. An enemy. Urgency. Someone get Framework on the horn.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm starting The Centre For Decentralized Compute, or the CDC if you will. I am accepting donations.
No but for real, I think there should be some sort of organized opposition to centralizing computational power.
Also, maybe there should be more marketing around the idea of decentralized compute. All the elements for a great marketing campaign are there. You have a cause people would care about. An enemy. Urgency. Someone get Framework on the horn.
Keep Compute Local. Decentralized Compute is Digital Sovereignty. Not down with OPP (Other People's Power). We taught rocks to think and all I got was this egress bill? My Other Computer Has a GPU. Honk if your computer works without WiFi.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm starting The Centre For Decentralized Compute, or the CDC if you will. I am accepting donations.
No but for real, I think there should be some sort of organized opposition to centralizing computational power.
Also, maybe there should be more marketing around the idea of decentralized compute. All the elements for a great marketing campaign are there. You have a cause people would care about. An enemy. Urgency. Someone get Framework on the horn.
@fromjason Sounds like Folding@Home to me. I like the idea
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