Models of this size can usually be run using MLX on a pair of 512GB Mac Studio M3 Ultras, which are about $10,000 each so $20,000 for the pair.

You might want to clarify that this is more of a "Look it technically works"

Not a "I actually use this"

The difference between waiting 20 minutes to answer the prompt '1+1='

and actually using it for something useful is massive here. I wonder where this idea of running AI on CPU comes from. Was it Apple astroturfing? Was it Apple fanboys? I don't see people wasting time on non-Apple CPUs. (Although, I did do this for a 7B model)