Chapter 1
Breaking free from the cloud
Chapter 2
The silicon inside your machine
Chapter 3
The open source brain trust
Chapter 4
Living with a local assistant
YOUR GOAL
Master of Your private home AI
Ch 2 · The silicon inside your machine
007skaty Silicon Processors
Refined from sand, this silicon code Runs private thoughts in offline mode.
007skaty Unified memory architectures allow computers to share RAM dynamically between the processor and graphics card, making local AI run much faster.
007skaty Graphics processing units, or GPUs, excel at AI because they can perform millions of mathematical calculations simultaneously instead of one by one.
BETA
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Fun Fact
GPU power: A single modern consumer graphics card contains more raw computing power than all the supercomputers in the world combined did in the mid-1990s.
Glossary
silicon (noun)
A chemical element used widely as a semiconductor in the manufacture of microchips and electronic circuits. Apple introduced its custom M1 silicon in 2020, enabling personal computers to process neural networks locally.
A chemical element used widely as a semiconductor in the manufacture of microchips and electronic circuits. Apple introduced its custom M1 silicon in 2020, enabling personal computers to process neural networks locally.
Quiz
Which company revolutionized consumer local AI in 2020 by introducing unified memory in its M-series chips?
Quiz
Which Taiwanese company manufactures the vast majority of the world's advanced AI microchips?
Quiz
Which metric, measuring billions of operations per second, is used to rate NPU performance in modern AI PCs?
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Which type of computer memory is most critical for determining how large of an AI model you can run?
Quiz
What is the main physical side effect of running high-performance local AI models on a home computer?
Quiz
Why are GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) preferred over traditional CPUs for running local AI?