local ai hardware

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Hardware

there's a $3,700 GPU with more VRAM than a $4,700 RTX 5090 — and almost nobody running local AI has heard of it

I priced out every rung of the local-AI hardware ladder this week. One tier is quietly the best deal on the list, and one isn't worth it at any price.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 27 · 9 min

Hardware

Alibaba just open-sourced a 2.4 trillion parameter AI model — good luck ever running it yourself

it beats Claude on some benchmarks and rivals GPT on others, and it's free to download next week. here's the hardware math that ruins the fun.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 7 min

Hardware

Nvidia board partners just hiked RTX 5070 Ti prices again — up to 59% over MSRP

MSI and Colorful just repriced their RTX 5070 Ti cards in China, and the increase traces straight back to memory costs squeezed by AI server demand.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 6 min