OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More.

Has the computers for local AI become that good?

Macs, in particular, are likely to be the best option at the moment, unless you absolutely need the largest Frontier models.

Just wait for Mac m5 ultra

The Mac Studio already has it. And from October, it’ll also be available with 512GB. It does cost around 18K, though.

That’s pretty crazy. I’ve been reading that models around 14-32B is plenty for daily tasks and then some.