A rough price out using new egg/microcenter pricing, substituting a few items where they didn't specify a specific item/brand. I didn't bother trying to figure out what case they used.

Grand total: ~ $41,000

Motherboard https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-mh53-g40-amd-ryzen-threadrip... $895

CPU https://www.microcenter.com/product/674313/amd-ryzen-threadr... - $3500

Cooler https://www.newegg.com/p/3C6-013W-002G6 $585

RAM https://www.newegg.com/a-tech-256gb/p/1X5-006W-00702 $1600

SSDs https://www.newegg.com/crucial-2tb-t700-nvme/p/N82E168201563... $223 x 4 = $892

GPUs https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16888892012 - $8295 x 4 = $33,180

Case https://www.newegg.com/fractal-design-atx-full-tower-north-s... $195

Power Supply https://www.newegg.com/thermaltake-toughpower-gf3-series-ps-... - $314

In less than a year when A16z is finished with the few, pointless experiments they want to run on this and it is relegated to a closet forgotten, some poor founder is going to see it appear as part of their term sheet. "Oh, yes, $75,000 of our $500,000 commit is compensated through this state-of-the-art AI Workstation"

Super cool specs but I can’t stop laughing at that goofy A16Z logo on the case. Zero taste

If you actually want a good multi-GPU system, just get an NVIDIA-designed system. There's no good reason to try to design and build one yourself when you will be relying almost entirely on NVIDIA cards and their multi-GPU communication.

Other than the fact it's cool to run locally, what's the advantage of having one of these vs renting h100 clusters from runpod/lambda?

If some rich guys want to role play as engineers - sure go ahead. But making this article should be a humiliation.

A VC fund selling “self-hosted” AI compute rigs was never on my bingo card.

I’m glad they did. It’s weird and different.

If you can’t already just buy a Lenovo or Dell workstation with this configuration, I’m sure you can just buy 4x GPUs and plug them into a base system that will support them.

Who is buying hardware this expensive from a business that probably doesn’t really know how to do (or isn’t setup to do) proper manufacturing tests?

> access to raw compute is still one of the biggest bottlenecks

> We are planning to test and make a limited number of these

So this does approximately nothing to solve the original problem of supply and cost. Even if you sold it at a loss, that GPU is still going to be expensive.

Just be honest and say you thought it would be cool and you're not Y Combinator so you gotta do whatever you can to make your firm seem like a special smart kids club.

> personal AI Workstation delivers complete control over your environment, latency reduction, custom configurations and setups, and the privacy of running all workloads locally.

What's the recommended operating system with support for this hardware and local compute without cloud telemetry/identity?

This is the not-so-distant-future that a lot of people don’t see. We’re in the AI mainframe era and it’s coming to the pc era soon. I hope that’s what Apple is waiting on. Perhaps we will buy LLMs and install them locally one day too like a video game.

Can you guys make one more that I could stop by and pick up from your office (and pay for, if you care for that sort of thing)? I checked with Puget Systems, but they are only doing 3 cards max.

My only question is: why not Zen 5? No suitable motherboards?

How much heat does it generate and how loud is it at full tilt? Try keep comparing it to a modern under-desk computer, but I’m not sure you’d want to have that thing in the same room while you’re using it?

Ok but what are you doing with them? Much more interested in that.

Price: "Call for pricing. Never mind, if you have to call and ask, you can't afford it."

Building a16z’s Personal AI Workstation with four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell Max-Q GPUs

For this money a tenstoreent silent machine is much better

Cringe.

It seems like this post has been removed from the front page of HN. I think it was in the #1 spot 15 minutes ago.

Happy april 1st!

If AI bubble pops can I mine crypto on it

Are they Trump? Oy vey

A16Z is consistently the most embarrassing VC firm at any given point in time. I guess optimistically they might be doing “outrage marketing” but it feels more like one of those places where the CEO is just an idiot and tells his employees to jump on every trend.

The funny part is that they still make money. It seems like once you’ve got the connections, being a VC is a very easy job these days.

Are they going to gift it to the POTUS for some favours or what now? Apple's gold bar type s...

Ugly. Just like their new logo and their president.

This article is a great way to showcase A16Z standinging head and shoulders above other VCs with REAL technical expertise in the partnership. Love reading this kind of stuff, but the article really needs a price to put this in perspective. It would be the VC that would ignore price, lol, but roughing this out it looks like it costs 45k to build this thing. Seems, at first glance, that this is a cost efficient way to dodge buying a Kia Carnival and get a tier-1 GPU workstation..