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Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026 (www.reuters.com)
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[–] 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I don't think they're insinuating running inferences from the SSD. But you need somewhere to store the weights for the GPU to load.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 hours ago* (1 child)

    i am trying to say: you need the SSD to store it but not swap to it due to its slowness

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  • [–] 1 point 6 hours ago

    I won't pretend to be an expert but my understanding is that the architecture loads experts from the SSD on demand with the RAM serving as a hot cache and the VRAM running the active experts.

    As I said above I was able to run 70tok/s on my 4090w64GB ram and a samsung pcie4.0 ssd.

    I haven't run the benchmarks myself, but I can say the quality of response I was getting seemed on par with the frontier models I use for work (Claude opus/fable) and the published benchmarks for the model compete with those same models.

    It is a q3 quantization so there is some small loss of accuracy, but from what I've understood those are modest losses in the worst case.

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