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Give Julio Di Egidio the bloody money [3 RMB¥ MiniMind] (Re: Eat Tteokbokki before SkyNet kills you [$100 ChatGPT])

From Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups comp.lang.prolog
Subject Give Julio Di Egidio the bloody money [3 RMB¥ MiniMind] (Re: Eat Tteokbokki before SkyNet kills you [$100 ChatGPT])
Date 2025-10-18 16:19 +0200
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Hi,

Give Julio Di Egidio the bloody money. He is
craving for 300 USD so that he can buy the
ISO Prolog core standard. Just imagine he would want

to build a MiniMind. Just lets put some more
prespective on the current costs:

This open-source project aims to train a super-small
language model MiniMind with only 3 RMB cost and
2 hours, starting completely from scratch. The
MiniMind series is extremely lightweight, with the
smallest version being 1/7000 the size of GPT-3,
making it possible to train quickly on even the
most ordinary personal GPUs.
https://github.com/jingyaogong/minimind/blob/master/README_en.md

ChatGPT tells me that most of the numbers
are correct when you rent a GPU by the hour.
But what about a 100% ownership of a GPU for

a year. I find this might cost 12'000 USD.
One has to separate platforms for execution from
those platforms for training:

GEX44: for AI inference
Nvidia RTX™ 4000, 184 EUR / month

GEX130: for AI training
NVIDIA RTX™ 6000, 813 EUR / month
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-gpu/

Bye

Mild Shock schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Thinks are definitively accelerating. I really would
> like to use an AI that knows about all the News of today.
> This bloody cut date is so annoying.
> 
> Further indicative that AI is accelerating:
> 
> In August 2025, Sam Altman dropped a bombshell:
> 
> *months, not years: Rushing GPT-6*
> In August 2025, Sam Altman dropped a bombshell:
> GPT-6 is already in development and coming sooner
> than you think. Not in two years, but
> potentially in months.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44mJb5sKji0
> 
> Karpathy, coined vibe coding, released in October 2025:
> 
> *nanochat: The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy*
> This repo is a full-stack implementation of an
> LLM like ChatGPT in a single, clean, minimal,
> hackable, dependency-lite codebase. nanochat is
> designed to run on a single 8XH100 node via
> scripts like speedrun.sh, that run the
> entire pipeline start to end.
> https://github.com/karpathy/nanochat
> 
> Bye
> 
> Mild Shock schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> But not only Mobie AI and Desktop AI are making
>> a broader imprint now. We might also experience
>> Workstation AI, with a 3'000.- USD price tag:
>>
>>  > You Can't Buy This... Yet! The NVIDIA GB10 from Dell
>>  > The New Superchip that Terrifies the Cloud!
>>  > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1qViw4xyVo
>>
>> So whats going on? I was asking Phind, which is
>> driven by a 70B model tailored towards developers:
>>
>> Q: Is there an AI inflection point right now ,
>>     with NPUs in mobile, desktop and workstation
>>
>> A: Evidence of the Inflection Point
>>
>> - Mobile Leadership
>>    NPUs originated in smartphones
>>    Now becoming ubiquitous across all device types
>>    Enabling sophisticated AI features at consumer price points
>>
>> - Desktop Revolution
>>    Major manufacturers implementing NPUs across product lines
>>    Apple's Neural Engine integrated into M-series chips
>>    Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD incorporating AI accelerators
>>
>> - Workstation Transformation
>>    Professional-grade NPUs in mobile workstations
>>    Demonstrated superior performance for AI-specific tasks
>>    Enabling local processing of previously cloud-dependent workloads
>>
>> https://www.phind.com/search/cmgs1s6jv00023h67g5z2aaa0
>>
>> Bye
>>
>> Mild Shock schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It seems I am having problems pacing with
>>> all the new fancy toys. Wasn't able to really
>>> benchmark my NPU from a Desktop AI machine,
>>>
>>> picked the wrong driver. Need to try again.
>>> What worked was benchmarking Mobile AI machines.
>>> I just grabbed Geekbench AI and some devices:
>>>
>>> USA Fab, M4:
>>>
>>>      sANN    hANN    qANN
>>> iPad CPU    4848    7947    6353
>>> iPad GPU    9752    11383    10051
>>> iPad NPU    4873    36544    *51634*
>>>
>>> China Fab, Snapdragon:
>>>
>>>      sANN    hANN    qANN
>>> Redmi CPU    1044    950    1723
>>> Redmi GPU    480    905    737
>>> Redmi NNAPI    205    205    469
>>> Redmi QNN    226    226    *10221*
>>>
>>> Speed-Up via NPU is factor 10x. See the column
>>> qANN which means quantizised artificial neural
>>> networks, when NPU or QNN is picked.
>>>
>>> The mobile AI NPUs are optimized using
>>> mimimal amounts of energy, and minimal amounts
>>> of space squeezing (distilling) everything
>>>
>>> into INT8 and INT4.
>>>
>>> Bye
>>>
>>> Mild Shock schrieb:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> The change from 378 ms to 286 ms is around 25-30%
>>>> is insane. But I did both tests on a novel AI CPU.
>>>> To be precise on a AMD Ryzen AI 7 350.
>>>>
>>>> But somehow I picked up rumors that AI CPUs now
>>>> might do Neural Network Branch Prediction. The
>>>> idea seems to exist in hardware at least since (2012):
>>>>
>>>> Machine learning and artificial intelligence are
>>>> the current hype (again). In their new Ryzen
>>>> processors, AMD advertises the Neural Net
>>>> Prediction. It turns out this is was already
>>>> used in their older (2012) Piledriver architecture
>>>> used for example in the AMD A10-4600M. It is also
>>>> present in recent Samsung processors such as the
>>>> one powering the Galaxy S7. What is it really?
>>>> https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/the_neural_network_in_your_cpu/
>>>>
>>>> It can be done with Convoluted Neural Networks (CNN):
>>>>
>>>> BranchNet: A Convolutional Neural Network to
>>>> Predict Hard-To-Predict Branches
>>>> To this end, Tarsa et al. proposed using convolutional
>>>> neural networks (CNNs) that are trained at
>>>> compiletime to accurately predict branches that
>>>> TAGE cannot. Given enough profiling coverage, CNNs
>>>> learn input-independent branch correlations.
>>>> https://microarch.org/micro53/papers/738300a118.pdf
>>>>
>>>> Interstingly the above shows cases a PGO based
>>>> Machine Learning for Branch Predictors. No clue
>>>> how they construct the CPU, that they can feed
>>>>
>>>> it with offline constructed neural neutworks for
>>>> their own execution. Maybe an optimizer uses it?
>>>> But I guess a more modern  solutions would not only
>>>>
>>>> use CNN, but also an Attention Mechanism.
>>>>
>>>> Bye
>>>>
>>>> Mild Shock schrieb:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I spent some time thinking about my primes.pl
>>>>> test. And came to the conclusion that it
>>>>> mainly tests the Prolog ALU. Things like
>>>>>
>>>>> integer successor or integer modulo. Then
>>>>> I found that Java has Math.floorMod() which
>>>>> I wasn't using yet. And peng results are better:
>>>>>
>>>>> /* Dogelog Player 2.1.2 for Java, today */
>>>>> ?- time(test).
>>>>> % Zeit 286 ms, GC 1 ms, Lips 26302430, Uhr 15.10.2025 02:31
>>>>> true.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe the Java backend picks a CPU instruction
>>>>> for Math.floorMod() instead of executing the
>>>>> longer code sequence that is needed to correct
>>>>>
>>>>> rem/2 into mod/2. Who knows. I also reorganized
>>>>> the code a little bit, and eliminated an extra
>>>>> method call in all arithmetic functions, by
>>>>>
>>>>> inlining the arithmetic function body in the
>>>>> evaluable predicate definition code. Comparison
>>>>> to old measurements and some measurements of
>>>>>
>>>>> other Prolog systems:
>>>>>
>>>>> /* Dogelog Player 2.1.2 for Java, weeks ago */
>>>>> ?- time(test).
>>>>> % Zeit 378 ms, GC 1 ms, Lips 19900780, Uhr 28.08.2025 17:44
>>>>> true.
>>>>>
>>>>> /* SWI-Prolog 9.0.4 */
>>>>> ?- time(test).
>>>>> % 7,506,639 inferences, 0.363 CPU in 0.362 seconds
>>>>> (100% CPU, 20693560 Lips)
>>>>> true.
>>>>>
>>>>> /* Scryer Prolog 0.9.4-639 */
>>>>> ?- time(test).
>>>>> % CPU time: 0.365s, 7_517_613 inferences
>>>>> true.
>>>>>
>>>>> /* Trealla Prolog 2.82.23-3 */
>>>>> ?- time(test).
>>>>> % Time elapsed 0.868s, 11263917 Inferences, 12.983 MLips
>>>>> true.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bye
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S.: The code uses the hated mathematical mod/2,
>>>>> and not the cheaper rem/2 that CPUs usually have:
>>>>>
>>>>> test :-
>>>>>     len(L, 1000),
>>>>>     primes(L, _).
>>>>>
>>>>> primes([], 1).
>>>>> primes([J|L], J) :-
>>>>>     primes(L, I),
>>>>>     K is I+1,
>>>>>     search(L, K, J).
>>>>>
>>>>> search(L, I, J) :-
>>>>>     mem(X, L),
>>>>>     I mod X =:= 0, !,
>>>>>     K is I+1,
>>>>>     search(L, K, J).
>>>>> search(_, I, I).
>>>>>
>>>>> mem(X, [X|_]).
>>>>> mem(X, [_|Y]) :-
>>>>>     mem(X, Y).
>>>>>
>>>>> len([], 0) :- !.
>>>>> len([_|L], N) :-
>>>>>     N > 0,
>>>>>     M is N-1,
>>>>>     len(L, M).
>>>>>
>>>>> Mild Shock schrieb:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> WebPL is already outdated I guess. It doesn't
>>>>>> show the versions of the other Prolog systems
>>>>>> it is using. While I had these results for
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the primes example in the WebPL playground:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /* Trealla Prolog WASM */
>>>>>> (23568.9ms)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I run the example here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://php.energy/trealla.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I get better results:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /* trealla-js 0.27.1 */
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ?- time(test).
>>>>>> % Time elapsed 9.907s, 11263917 Inferences, 1.137 MLips
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bye
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
> 

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