Ex-Tesla advocate admits AI PC pitch was wrong: FSD v14.3 Lite runs fine on 7-year-old hardware
bingxu_ · x · 2026-10-31
Author bingxu reflects that advocating "AI PC" (running datacenter-level models at home) 3 years ago was a mistake.
He points to Tesla FSD v14.3 Lite, which performs impressively on hardware from 7 years ago, as evidence that privacy-sensitive tasks can run on well-distilled small models locally. Forcing a datacenter-grade model to run at home is "a stupid waste," he concludes.
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