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Re: MS Edge was never useful but at least it had worked for Copilot but what AI/LLM now?

From	"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Subject	Re: MS Edge was never useful but at least it had worked for Copilot but what AI/LLM now?
Date	2026-08-27 23:15 +0200
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On 2026-08-27 18:38, ....winston wrote:
> On 08/27/2026 3:03 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2026-08-27 03:20, Paul wrote:
>>> You can run them locally, but you have to be patient. For one request
>>> to write a program, and with high reasoning enabled, it took 50 minutes
>>> to half-write the program. The high reasoning took about eight minutes
>>> of that, and the vast majority of the time was spent on token output.
>>>
>>> They tell me it would use a video card for token output,*if* the 
>>> question
>>> fits entirely within the video card. But with my puny hardware 
>>> resources, it
>>> always uses the CPU for token output, which can be slow.
>>
>> There is a chip that can accelerate the ai more than gpus. I read 
>> about it in the ieee spectrum magazine, but I don't remember the name 
>> of the thing. Laptops will come with that hardware so they can handle 
>> ai locally with reasonable battery usage.
>>
>> probably asking an ai about this it will tell better details than me :-D
>>
> 
> 
> Iirc,
> NPU - neural processing unit

That's the one I was thinking about.

> ASIC - app specific
>   - i.e. for a specific AI task
> 
> Also another older type of chip/circuitry based on gate array(?) and re- 
> programmable.
> 


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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.

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