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Gerstner: Wearable AI devices are one year away from capable on-device models

Brad Gerstner · Ep8. AI Models, Data Scaling, Enterprise & Personal AI | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod · Apr 29, 2024 · at 46:53

Brad Gerstner discusses latency and poor reviews of the Humane Ai Pin, arguing that local inference will fix device performance within a year.

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“We're a year away, probably max, from that thing being able to have a billion parameter or five hundred million parameter model that basically has all the capability you need it to have.”

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