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> AI photo and video generation is impractical to run locally.

You think it always will be? What can the new iPhone chips do locally?






Regardless of what hardware capabilities exist, the previous post makes it sound like every application needs AI which is just not true.

> You think it always will be? What can the new iPhone chips do locally?

I suspect we're a decade off from being able to generate Veo 3, Seedance, or Kling 2.1 videos directly on our phones.

This is going to require both new compute paradigms and massively more capable hardware. And by that time who knows what we'll be doing in the data center.

Perhaps the demands of generating real time fully explorable worlds will push more investment into local compute for consumers. Robotics will demand tremendous low latency edge compute, and NVidia has already highlighted it as a major growth and investment opportunity.




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