The sad part of this is that all those powerful NPUs are basically paperweight.

35-50 low power TOPS taking 1/5 of the die area and not being used by anyone...

Local speech recognition is something useful that runs well on a (power efficient) NPU.

Dragon Naturally Speaking used to cost real money and wasn't as accurate as an open model like Whisper.

These things are a waste of sand.

Could’ve added more gpu or cpu or cache and people would’ve been happier.

When these came out, I thought, what is the average PC user going to get out of this? Faster image touchups, and...? You can't run an LLM chatbot of any comparison to free cloud models.

Oh yeah, and Recall. That worked out well.

Yep… massive waste. A dsp coprocessor hobbled by npu workflows.

We cantnrun local models on them? They must have some sort of api exposed right? Qualcomm has the Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine iirc

You can do cool experiments with them. But nothing a typical consumer is likely to care about.

Yes, you can. Of course relatively limited, but you absolutely can run local models.

Based on my own testing, the Windows drivers are a bit restricted to do some more advanced stuff, and it may be due to some security issues in the past? at least that is what I gathered from exploring this issue with GLM 5.3

   "seems to be a more nationalistic play than a rationale one"

That holds true for at least 50% of the decisions made this year on both sides of the Atlantic. But it doesn't change the fact that NL is in a bad place and needs to do something

I, too, am really incompetent. Have had several major screwups that affected not only my workplace but also other companies.

I hope my personal IPO is at least worth a couple of hundred millions.

To be fair, you too would keep it in your pants if the chainsaw massacre guy was holding the fate of your nation in his hands.

More seriously, who can start a family when economy is this unstable?

sorry, current president only 3 years in power. what 10 years are you speaking about?

also, by many stats Argentina is more stable of what it was before. what stat you refer indicates less stability?

seems peronista detected here.

Mimo 2.5 and mimo 2.5 pro are completely different beasts.

The non-pro version is mostly useless

I only tested MiMo 2.5 Pro. I have updated my comment to make that clear in the first mention.

Then I think what this guy is doing with local Star Trek voice cloning is right up your alley:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jDudeaWppSE

This has been possible for quite a long time (probably 1-2 years). There are multiple open models that can do this quite well. Recent example from my YT feed:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WENMgQE9tws

> I guess voice cloning is widely enough available now from other providers that Google are no longer hesitant to ship it.

Nowadays these error can be a good thing :)

Human error means this wasn't just stopped together by some bot.

My bet is that it's a bot error, but of a rule based one.

Yes, it seems they have a template that they fill with numbers. Similar issues spotted on Grok's performance page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789558

I think the bigger problem is that this was pushed as a firmware update, bricking previously working devices.

Remember when FTDI did this and suddenly medical equipment at some hospital stopped working?

I think some people are missing the joke here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident

Subtlety in a joke is a beautiful art. BUT AT WHAT COST.

People who were in high school in 2016 and therefore not being aware of leftpad are currently in their 6th year of their career if they went directly to college and then a job.

Tech doesn't teach it's own history in a useful way, so we keep repeating it too.

Another multi-volume textbook to carry for the students of the future!