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The daily driver: local AI under $5k
This is the tier where local AI becomes boring, which is the highest compliment. The box is silent, the answers are fast, and the models are big enough that you stop asking what a model can do and start asking what you want done. Your writing assistant, your code reviewer, your document librarian, your form-filler: all local, all day, on hardware that uses less power than the monitor next to it.
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WANT MORE? THE $12k TIER
Open the case. This is where local AI becomes a hobby with a parts list: two GPUs, a power plan, and the fastest single-machine inference you have ever seen. New models land on CUDA stacks first, and this build is standing on the loading dock when they arrive.
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