Can we take this as an official statement that Nvidia supports local models?
Why would Nvidia increase GPU efficiency for local models? Surely they'll operate like athletes and only establish a new record from time to time when necessary.
The first reply on the X thread is by Gerardo Delgado, who is "Sr. Director of Product - Local AI, Creators, Developers @NVIDIA" according to his profile. In his post, he says "My team's goal at NVIDIA is to grow Local AI."
Hedging against a data center bubble burst or at least massive pullback
Trivial for them to cut margin on desktop cards and clean up/prop up falling data center sales serving the hungry gamer, blockchain, local AI that's been sitting on its hands the last year or two
Nvidia is the PC ecosystem's best answer to Apple
Sorry… what does this mean? I thought most people considered Apple irrelevant because of its low market share.