- Skepticism about Laya’s novelty and “local” nature
- “that's not a local LLM. If it's local, it doesn't matter in this case. Laya is a System 1 'AI', namely works like a classifier…” – frag
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“Laya is a finetuned version of Google's BeRT model, which is almost 10 years old right now. If BeRT had any potential to disrupt the datacenter buildout, it already would have.” – bigyabai
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Enthusiasm for local LLMs enabling control‑oriented applications
- “Local LLMs are the future, and one of the reasons I think the data centre furore is just going to end in a market crash.” – PaulRobinson
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“LLMs that can reliably be used for control problems are the future… this might move the needle in a really, really interesting way.” – PaulRobinson
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Interest in concrete demos (e.g., Snake) and request for technical details
- “This looks like a local AI model playing Snake -- is that correct? The article offers no explanation.” – tentacleuno
- “The linked github project [1] contains more information.” – ryuuseijin (link: https://github.com/mizorewww/laya-coreml)
- “Great job! Did you finetune your own Laya for the snake game or what?” – frag
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