[ai-christianson]

It's it a good rush to want to run open models on your own computer? This isn't like Bitcoin mining where there is some direct monetary reward for hoarding compute.

[nottorp]

Either gold rush or fear of missing out if you ask me.

I've succesfully run (not trained) local models * on my mac mini that cost less than a single video card anyway.

* That fit in my ram. They were probably slower than the FOMO hardware but good enough.

[tommilburn]

it is a gold rush from nvidia's perspective in that they're selling shovels