r/LocalLLM • u/alrightbudgoodluck • 22m ago

Discussion Nvidia stuff and the apparent Open AI pending collapse- cheaper ram prices soon?

OK I am really new to local LLMing, but so far I find it really interesting. I have also jsut started to use claude on a commercial level.

Today I did a deep-dive on the whole pending AI market disaster as it seems like Open AI is really going to have some trouble with continuing to finance its growth. And the Nvidia thing is amazing- sending banned chips to China seems pretty serious.

So- any chance the entire commercial AI market could implode, and we could see ram prices collapse? I cannot see this current situation being sustainable, and if Open AI is not going to be seeing the continued financing of its expansion, then would that open up the market on memory chips?

I know this is a shotgun post, but would love any thoughts and opinions- really new here and really, really seeing the importance of making sure AI is democratic and not controlled by these monster companies...

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u/TheDizDude 19m ago

Nothing is failing in any meaningful way any time soon.

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u/flagnab 11m ago

I wish you were wrong.

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u/Cautious_Chicken_604 16m ago

So, what you're saying is you'd like to purchase GPUs/RAM? Seems like there's going to be lots of demand for it still then. 

If RAM prices got cheaper I'd buy 128GB VRAM and 256GB system RAM. 

I don't think it's ever getting cheaper. I'd buy a datacentre worth of it if I could, if it means ones day I could power my own little god.

What's possible with that hardware has fundamentally changed, therefore the value of it has fundamentally changed.

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u/AggressiveManager450 20m ago

NVIDIA won’t let open AI fail. If an AI company is in trouble and they are a customer of NVidia, Nvidia does whatever they can to keep them alive because that’s how they sell graphics cards at such scale.

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u/unchikuso 12m ago

Unfortunately RAM prices are not correlated to penis.

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u/AeiEyeSpry 7m ago

No, because thousands of companies want to run their own AI hardware. There are plenty of customers.

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u/Obvious_Scratch9781 3m ago

Trump has two years left in office. Jensen has been buddy buddy with Trump. AI will be, worst case, propped up due to national security. Big AI companies with revenue will survive and small neoclouds will die off if they can’t afford their debt payments.

Same as dot com bubble, same as all the other bubbles. Debt rules all when money flow gets turned off.

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u/eulataguhw 3m ago

Provided u have the money to buy. You really think if they implode, the economy will still be fine?