Weighing up hardware costs with the rate of improvement of AI models sucks.
I'd very much prefer to not rely on these big tech companies, but the few local models that are tolerable and can be made to be comparable in quality are waaaay too big for my 7900XTX now.
But it's hard to predict if a unified memory machine bought now with large amounts of RAM is going to remain useful for even a year at the pace of change.
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