correct. the future has always been local, that you control. nvidia has already started selling consumer ai hardware.

I'm also impressed with GLM-5.3-Flash. This is similar to Claude Opus 4.8. It's much smaller and cheaper than GLM-5.3, and still incredibly capable. 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.

512 GB of RAM?!

My brother in christ I don't even have 12 GB of ram! I don't even have 512GB of SSD storage!

I say no to all of it.

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'.

Who do you say yes to?

I've preferred Chinese alternatives since they became available. Fuck clammy Sam Altman and Wario, and I don't really give a shit otf the Chinese know I can't write my own yaml

The tech is legitimately cool, but American AI CEOs are unbearable cunts that only make hype