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Re:Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota run... by paxys on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @05:24PM (#46892731)
LOCAL models. No one is running Kimi 2.5 on their Macbook or RTX 4090.
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Re:Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota run... by DennisP on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:12PM (#46893839)
On Macbooks, no. But there are a few lunatics like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFgTxr5yst0

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Re:Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota run... by HarHarVeryFunny on Thursday February 05, 2026 @07:52AM (#46899094)
Wow!

I've never heard of this guy before, but I see he's got 5M YouTube subscribers, which I guess is the clout you need to have Apple loan (I assume) you $50K worth of Mac Studios!

I'll be interesting to see how model sizes, capability, and local compute prices evolve.

A bit off topic, but I was in best buy the other day and was shocked to see 65" TVs selling for $300 ... I can remember the first large flat screen TVs (plasma?) selling for 100x that ($30K) when they first came out.

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Re:Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota run... by danw1979 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @08:02AM (#46899181)
He must be mad, accepting $50k of free (probably loaned?) hardware from Apple !

Great demo video though. Nice to see some benchmarks of Exo with this cluster across various models.

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Re:Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota run... by deaux on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:01PM (#46895105)
Some people spend $50k on a new car, others spend it on running Kimi K2.5 at good speeds locally.

No one's running Sonnet/Gemini/GPT-5 locally though.

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