r/pcmasterrace • u/Bobert25467 • Mar 27 '26

News/Article Google's new AI algorithm might lower RAM prices

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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/google-says-new-turboquant-compression-can-lower-ai-memory-usage-without-sacrificing-quality/

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u/_Bisky Mar 27 '26

Pretty sure basically no AI is actually profitable

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u/rtxa i5-7500 | GTX 1070 G1 Mar 27 '26

some applications of it definitely are, like sw development, porn, data analysis..

but these don't necessarily scale to the massive amounts of infrastructure being built, so the classic thinking of "buy the shovels" probably won't work out quite as well as some might think

we're swimming in shovels, we lack the prospectors

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u/joqagamer Mar 27 '26

we dont lack the prospectors, we lack what to prospect.

yeah, AI can help with productivity, and generation, and data processing and all that. But the particular things AI is actually good at dont represent the unsurmountable amount of economical representation AI has gotten in the past few years.

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u/Suspicious-Guitar502 Mar 27 '26

sw development

if you mean something like Claude Code, that also very likely is losing them money. even their max plan allows users to effectively use more tokens than the plan costs, by a pretty significant factor if i remember correctly.

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u/rtxa i5-7500 | GTX 1070 G1 Mar 31 '26

it's definitely cheaper than the alternatives, even if you adjust the price