Apple's four-Mac AI: worth owning, even if it costs more?
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Apple's four-Mac demonstration makes owning a large AI model more plausible. But holding its reported generation rate constant for a day gives output worth about $13.49 at a published hosted rate. That illustration doesn't establish savings, and Augur argues that some firms should consider paying more anyway: cheap answers aren't useful when the work isn't permitted to enter the service.
The harder question is whether those firms want the responsibilities that come with ownership. Through a hypothetical developer working on restricted client code, this editorial examines the…
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