I was both impressed and disappointed. Setup was piss easy, and the models are great conversationalists. I have a 12 gig card available and the 12B model ran very nice and swift.
However, they're seemingly terrible at actually assisting with stuff. Tried something very basic: asked for a powershell one liner to get the native blocksize of my disks. Ended up hallucinating fields, then telling me to go off into the deep end, first elevating to admin, then using WMI, then bringing up IOCTL. Pretty unfortunate. Not sure I'll be able to put it to actual meaningful use as a result.
My back of envelope calculation says Intel should be about $35 a share (150/4). If they stumble when they report Q4, I think the US Gov will twist some arms to make sure that fresh ideas make it onto the board of directors, and perhaps even make Qualcomm buy them.
I do think that Intel need to ditch some of their experiments like Mobileye. Its great (essential) to try and "rebalance their portfolio" away from server/pc chips by trying new businesses, but Mobileye hasnt grown very much.
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Zama uses TFHE, which allows any operation (eg comparisons) with unlimited depth.
So if you only need add/mul, BFV, BGV and CKKS are good options. For anything else, you better use TFHE