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[–] brucethemoose 5 points 21 hours ago

For RAG data? It works.

But its too slow for the weights. What generative models fundamentally do is run a full pass through the multi-gigabyte weights for every 'word' or diffusion step, so even 128-bit DDR5 like you find on desktop CPUs is too slow.