Imagine spending a trillion dollars on data centers and then reading this article. Nightmare fuel for OpenAI

For 99.99% of people, spending 15 grand on a Mac Studio just to run Qwen 3.8 locally is a non starter.

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		It's not the M5 Ultra itself, but the M7s or M9s that will do the damage. 99% of people will use whatever AI is free. The sophisticated, heavy users that are willing and able to pay a lot of money the ones that will be interested in controlling their inference bills. Today, the sweet spot where an M5 Ultra makes sense is tiny. But we might expect that to grow a lot.