AI GPUs are computer chips. They've been dropping in cost and increasing in performance at breakneck pace for 30 years.

Because the natural state of the free market is prices falling toward the marginal cost of production, zero, forever.

Top of the line: several hundred GB of ram running locally. $20k-$100k of hardware before cost for beefing up electrical wiring setup at home. Middle of the road: maybe a few grand on high end consumer grade GPUs Shitty: 1 word per second or less and shit context but can run on a middle of the road PC The "magic" of AI exists only at the top of the line running the latest large models. Model size and hardware costs started small and got big and I expect them to drop again dramatically over time and self hosting will get more practical, just as bitcoin mining has done (from usb block erupters, to massive 3 phase machines consuming 10kw+, to bitaxes running on 9v DC power). For now if you go middle of the road or shitty, the benefits of these tools will not be clear at all and your experience may make you conclude that AI is fake and gay when in reality it is immensely powerful.

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I capitulated recently and the difference is incredible

The real art of AI is in the prompting

Openclaw isn't the AI, it's an open source layer on top of the AI that just makes it much more powerful than a generic LLM. The LLM you hook it to is up to you. So you can link it up to your own Mac studio or (much more practically) hook it up to an AI provider. can integrate and at least you maintain privacy

Download Linux mint xfce Download balena etcher Insert empty USB Use balena to flash Linux mint .iso to empty USB Reboot machine with USB plugged in, open boot menu Boot to USB drive Install Linux mint from within USB temporary OS Reboot and remove USB Device is now wiped and running Linux Open terminal Type: curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash Hit enter Go through config (it holds your hand along the way from there) Someone should sell em prebuilt