It was a quiet weekend and i felt like a change of pace.I always mean to run Locall LLM's on my desktop PC but I never really stick at it. This weekend I wrote some rudimentary benchmarking tests so I could compare the performance of my Custom AI PC and my MacBook Pro M4 max. The results were quite surprising. Anyhoo I wrote it up and published it on Medium incase anyone fancies a 10 min read.

Hey guys -need little advice Been working hard on the app I had in my mind for a little while: Its in polish -kind of journal with drawing cards -working on it now in aistudio google (80% code done) -after all is done -I want to send it to google store for android and IOS and first test it on my phone -what is the best route? Any other google apps that can help? need sth that is relatively easy to do as I am not a coder -of course can learn. Antigravity? Firesbase? Emergent, any others? Cheers in advance x

Alibaba released their Wan 2.2 model back in July. As I am not in that space I let it pass me by until I saw a post from @Simoo Emkoss . Having had a look into his issue I deployed the model to my local PC, and utilised ComfyIU as the interface. Damm, to a layman it is great. I had a play around with it and managed to generate a few silly videos to see what it could do. I was impressed. Even when i slipped up after adding a massive prompt the eagles were awesome (First Video) I think what shows the power though is the second video. It was created from a still picture and i had the dog turn around and wander away. It is only a few seconds clip but the detail is amazing. And my prompt you may ask. Well here it is. " the dog turns and runs away from the camera as teh grass gently sqays in the wind" Yep complete with typos that I am so good at. I should point out the first video is text to video (T2V), and the second video is image to video (I2V) Render times T2V - circa 5 seconds I2V - 205 Seconds I am sure you videographers out there know lots of ways to utilize this power. Me? I'll just move on :)

I have been using fal ai and it's expensive to use, I'm looking for alternatives. Will renting a cloud GPU and installing the model locally be a better option? or is there a cheaper way to do it? I'm willing to pay, just not expensive prices for tokens, I spent almost $45 on less than 15 minutes of footage clips

Hello, I'd like to know which cloud service is recommended for a company: AWS, GCP, or Azure? This company pays its employees for Microsoft 365 but doesn't have a cloud service. They also use SupaBase for embedding a RAG chatbot, which they're looking to host. Could they keep SupaBase Pro even if they acquire a cloud service, or would they have to migrate it? Initially, they would host the RAG chatbot project, but they plan to host more projects in the future. They're looking for robustness, security, and scalability.