the $22k a year everyone posts about local ai is the loud number. the quiet one is bigger, the contracts you stop losing on data residency
NVIDIA's DGX Spark is a $2,999 box that puts a 128GB ai supercomputer on a desk. it runs the same 70B models people have been renting in the cloud, except nothing crosses the network and no terms of service govern a machine you own
that second part is the business. own-compute stopped being a budget optimization, it's a sales motion. clients who couldn't legally send data to a cloud model can buy now, and the freelancers who own the hardware are the only ones who can sell to them
cheaper was never the point. ownable was
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