DupaCycki comments on Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It's also actually feasible for an individual person to get hardware to run it, like if you can one day get your hands on a Mac Studio with 512GB of RAM.

From the article.

Apple announced the M5 Ultra Mac Studio on August 26, 2026, with pre-orders open today and shipping on September 22. The headline number for local AI is 512GB of unified memory at 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth, starting at $5,499.

https://modelfit.io/blog/mac-studio-m5-ultra-512gb-local-llm/

Can't find any for sale, because it seems completely unavailable at the moment. That aside, I wouldn't call a price point of $5500 USD 'feasible'.

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[–] wintermute@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 4 weeks ago

I’m pretty sure it has to be way more than $5500 for the 512GB model. By boss bought a couple (older models) to run local inference at work, and he paid like $20K each.

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[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 weeks ago

Ehhh if it's a hobby you're really into it's not a crazy amount, I spent way more than that on motorcycles just for shits and giggles, 5k of photography equipment is a pretty small and sad pile, same with hi-fi, fishing, watches, bicycles etc.

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