I currently burn about 30 million tokens a day. I have a 98-99% cache hit on them. An RTX3090 and RTX5070 generates most of the rest at about 200t/s. I use Deepseek online as well for now because at $0.35 a day for 5-20 million tokens/day, it's cheaper than another GPU.

I expect that when laptops with 128GB RAM and a decent NPU happen, I'll start burning closer to 100 million tokens a day.

I don't think I could spend $2000 a year on tokens if I tried... Even a laptop is a 5 year purchase, so that can't cost more than $1200 a year

RAM is a pretty good gamble. There are two korean companies, a US company and a Chinese company, The entry barrier is high enough that even now, we should be executing Infineon's former leadership publicly for threatening the supply chain. CXMT is the best thing to happen in 20 years and Norway should drop $100 billion on licensing and building a European supplier (no, the EU can't do it, this is a one country thing, Germany is the only other one who could/should try, but their government is too broken because companies like VW and BMW would steal the money, claim it went to the workers and blame China).

If you're going to risk the entire national economy on something, RAM is safe. Whether due to AI, robotics, computer vision or anything else, 128GB is about to become the next 10 year norm. Every phone maker is planning on 32GB budget phones in the next 4 years. Now that China can mass produce RAM and is scaling massively, Korea has to up the bar.

BTW, if Trump doesn't lift restrictions, CXMT will continue to steal Korean RAM tech ... while Korean and US companies have to pay licenses for Chinese tech. CXMT is at the big kids table now. And if the US doesn't allow CXMT to license US and Korean tech, CXMT will just use it for free... which will make CXMT chips cheaper than US and Korean chips and threaten the world supply chain.

Even if this is the case, Tata has always been a disaster. There is a very good reason their cars never make it out of India. Their quality control is dismal. I honestly am not comfortable buying anything made by them. I would expect heavy use of hexane, toluene, xylene... and all those other lovely chemicals that are dangerous to the workers but give iPhones that new phone shine.

I hope Apple gives buyers the option to not buy Tata. I just feel they're a company that makes money at the cost of their workers health. And unlike the Chinese when they get caught, Tata will just find better ways to hide it.

I moved away from American AI. The risk of a cloud AI being yoinked from me as soon as I depend on it is too high.

Besides, anything Anthropic is peddling, everyone else will have shortly after.

How do you, an ordinary person, call the EMS if your mobile 'phone does not work because the cell tower has run our of electricity ?

What will the cost of not doing this be to: customers, emergency services, ... ?

But if the moron is going to brag that his product is a national security threat... Come on... It's like protesting that some moron got arrested for joking about bombs at airports

All the most profitable regulations are founded in FUD.

But "harvest now, decrypt later" is a real threat quantum or not.

There are a lot pictures on politician's telephones which would be damning today or in 20 years. And no, there are no encryptions are from time.

Do you seriously not have a clue?

You see this as a bad thing? This is a hell of an achievement and it's really impressive. And so you know, a lot of the CVEs were code fixes not just to windows but to open source projects which Linux depends heavily on, such as web browser engines. So, if you want to go down this path, I think you should also say "shouldn't the entire non-Microsoft infrastructure be embarrassed that Microsoft has to clean up their mess?"

Consider this, if all of this is being found and fixed by Microsoft, where are all the fixes for other platforms? Are we not advertising them? Are we keeping the vulnerabilities secret? Do you honestly think that Safari is on par with a web browser engine developed by multiple top companies? What about Firefox? How vulnerable is that and we don't even know it?

No, this is not a fart reference as space does have a smell.

However: the thought of fart smell made me write this comment.

No need, all the USA gov't needs to say is "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, either way we will get what we want."

Donald, is that you?