Monday, December 23, 2024

"Open the garage door, HAL."

Home AI computer for $250:

NVIDIA is taking the wraps off a new compact generative AI supercomputer, offering increased performance at a lower price with a software upgrade.

The new NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, which fits in the palm of a hand, provides everyone from commercial AI developers to hobbyists and students, gains in generative AI capabilities and performance. And the price is now $249, down from $499.

Available today, it delivers as much as a 1.7x leap in generative AI inference performance, a 70% increase in performance to 67 INT8 TOPS, and a 50% increase in memory bandwidth to 102GB/s compared with its predecessor.

Don't think I need one of these, but that's me.

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5 comments:

Matthew W said...

NOPE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Justin_O_Guy said...

No Alexa, no AI, no cell phone. Nope..

libertyman said...

Great, I didn't understand a word of this whole presentation.

Aesop said...

Riiiiiiight.
Because seeing George Jetson's Uniblab in action a hundred times wasn't enough of a cautionary tale.

Eagle said...

For a minute I thought this was a joke. Then I looked at the Nvidia Jetson Overview Page. I still think it's a joke.

Every few years, someone comes up with a "better mousetrap". Most of them fall along the way, having neither achieved their full promise or having been replaced by another "better mousetrap".

I seem to remember BP once saying about global warmening, "it can make a great grilled cheese sandwich". I wouldn't trust AI to operate an electric stove.

Meanwhile, re-watch ""Colossus: The Forbin Project" sometime. It's a primer on what AI is capable of.