Fuck AI

Not at all.

It's a Gigabyte AI Top PC. It's one of several such mini-PCs based on the Nvidia Blackwell GB-10 processor, in the emerging category of "personal AI supercomputer". It's not cheap but it's not out of reach either.

I got my company to buy me this thing on the argument that the company shouldn't use cloud services if possible on our sensitive code, and American cloud services even less, for obvious political and moral reasons. I argued that we should investigate the capabilities of this machine - or one like it - either to use as a shared AI server, or as an individual machine for all the developers here to use as locally-hosted AI coding assistants. My pitch made sense to my boss, so the company bought me this machine for me to investigate.

I've been using it since Monday for development and other things, such as translations, computer vision, general chatty thing, but also for traditional applications such as CAD, Blender, video editing and gaming too 🙂 I've been trying different models for different things, see how they perform, how snappy they are... I'm impressed enough that I plan on buying one for me and my wife at home. That one or maybe a slightly cheaper equivalent based on the same processor / memory, but without the connectors I don't need. It costs a little over 5 grand.