Looking at Hardware for Running Local Large Language Models

ChatRTX is a demo app that lets you personalize a GPT large language model (LLM) connected to your own content—docs, notes, images, or other data. Leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), TensorRT-LLM, and RTX acceleration, you can query a custom chatbot to quickly get contextually relevant answers. It all runs locally on your Windows RTX PC or …

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Apple Had Relatively Good Earnings and Is up 6% After Hours with $110 Billion in Share Buybacks

There were huge fears that Apple would have bad earnings and bad guidance. Apple is buying back a lot of shares. The company is boosting its buyback program by $110 billion. For context, Apple upped its authorization by $90 billion a year ago, and analysts were expecting a similar increase this time around. Apple being …

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Apple Electric Car Project Cancelled After Billions Spent

Bloomberg reports that the Apple electric Car project has been cancelled after a decade and many billions of dollars spent. Many of the Apple staff will shift to working on generative AI. There were about 2000 people working on the Apple electric car project. In 2018, there were around 5,000 employees working on the project. …

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Apple Third Quarter Results Completes Big Tech Earnings Season

Apple had decent Q3 results relative to expectations. Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon had the best big tech results. APPLE EARNINGS JUST OUT $AAPL *APPLE 4Q REV. $89.50B, EST. $89.35B ( BEAT ✅ ) *APPLE 4Q EPS $1.46, EST. $1.39 ( BEAT ✅ ) pic.twitter.com/ppM6HTjqLH — GURGAVIN (@gurgavin) November 2, 2023 Q3 Revenue Growth, YoY % …

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Bull Market With Top Seven Tech Stocks and Bear Market Without Them

2023 has been a relatively good year for the benchmark S&P 500 and growth stock-fueled Nasdaq Composite. The S&P 500 is widely viewed as the best benchmark of Wall Street’s health. It’s a market cap-weighted index comprised of 500 generally profitable, time-tested companies, a few of which have multiple classes of shares. All told, the …

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Apple, WhatsApp and Signal Will Refuse UK Government Backdoor into Encrypted Messaging

The UK government wants a backdoor into end-to-end encryption communication applications, but Apple says they would rather remove iMessenger and Facetime from iPhones in the UK. Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. The UK …

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Ford Predictions of Niche Cybertruck Will Echo Predictions of iPhone Failure

During an interview with CNBC/Mad Money/Jim Cramer, Ford CEO Jim Farley dismissed the Tesla Cybertruck as a high-end product targeted at Silicon Valley rather than a truck for real working people. In the United States, Ford F-Series deliveries totaled 170,377 units in Q1 2023, an increase of about 21 percent compared to 140,701 units sold …

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Marques Brownlee Calls Apple Vision Pro Eye-tracking As Its Best Feature

The Apple Vision Pro is completely controlled by your eyes, hands and voice. There are no controllers. Just like the iPhones uses your fingers for control and did away with any stylus. There are many cameras and Lidar on the outside so it can see your hands. When you touch your fingers together then you …

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