2026-10-13 09:52 UTC
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.
modelfit.io/…/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 2026-10-14 05:46
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.