Post #1577578
2026-04-23 13:39 UTC
I think by the time AI becomes efficient enough to be profitable, it’s going to be efficient enough to run locally and the whole AI as a service business model is going to collapse. We’re basically in the mainframe era of AI right now, and we’ve seen this happen with many technologies before. There’s no reason to think this case will be different.
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@grue@lemmy.world 2026-04-23 14:08
There’s no reason to think this case will be different. Not even the end of Moore’s Law? I’m not sure if you’re aware, but processors aren’t really getting much more efficient anymore. They’re just getting bigger (more parallel), which is why the price for the newer generations of GPUs has been skyrocketing. A new top-end GPU twice as much (or more) as a previous-gen one because it has twice as many (or more) compute units, since they can’t make the individual compute units much faster due to fundamental laws of physics.
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@pyr0ball@reddthat.com 2026-04-23 14:52
Yup. Already working on a suite of local pipeline apps and an orchestration platform for this. Happy to share if interested! Source