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NVIDIA quietly built two desktop boxes that delete a $25,000/year AI subscription bill You don't rewrite your stack, you don't rent another data center, you just plug both into the wall and switch one line of code One looks like a deck of cards, the other like a hardback... novel, together they replace ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Cursor Pro, the OpenAI API meter, and every cloud GPU you were renting for fine-tunes It's built on the same CUDA stack the data center runs, which means once you migrate one workflow the rest follow on the same code path The reason NVIDIA shipped this is simple The bigger you scale on cloud AI, the harder you get taxed, and a one-person operator paying $2,100/month is producing exactly $0 of asset value at the end of every month And their solution is to skip the rental meter entirely, push inference back onto your desk, and let you loop agents overnight without watching a number tick on someone else's invoice This is much cheaper, faster, and pays itself back in 6 weeks for anyone already running AI for work But there is still a question nobody has answered yet, what happens when the next frontier model drops and your local 70B falls 6 months behind mid-quarter Also, technically a stack of four of the big box runs a 1.6 trillion parameter model on a desk for under $12,000 Even a fraction of that compute is more than most people will ever need in a year Bookmark this, it's worth coming back to when you have time 👇show more

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Long 75 months ago

すごい進化ですね！AIの未来がますます明るくなりそうです。

Hougland Shana5 months ago

Genius.

Rehoboth_Joseph🧸5 months ago

good morning fam

Levi Martinez5 months ago

Is the $25k savings factoring in hardware lifespan, power, and maintenance costs?

William Ruider5 months ago

The Nvidia hardware is extraordinary, the problem are AI influencers everything you see in Nvidia ads made by them is the work of AI bots and is full of nonsense, falsehoods, just plain fakery. The salaries are unrealistic. The income is fake. Everything is made up. No one who actually makes money brags about it. This simply sabotages Nvidia.

Kai🔺5 months ago

this is insane, a $25k/year bill just poofed away

逸风·666 | 🎒5 months ago

the cloud tax is brutal fam

pingder5 months ago

good morning fam

Mcalister Josue5 months ago

Big mood.

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13,386 views • 4 months ago

one half of this keynote sells you the cloud forever, the other half shows the chip that lets you stop renting it this is the other half, AMD's CEO holding the chip in her hand 00:00 - Lisa Su introduces the Ryzen AI Halo, a system built for local AI 00:29 - the line that matters, it runs models up to 200 billion parameters locally, not connected to anything 00:42 - a 200 billion parameter model, the tier of the top paid AI plans, on a desktop that fits in your hand so the cloud wants $200 a month, forever, for access you never own this is the box that runs the same class of model with nothing leaving the room that is the whole point of my breakdown, the $200 a month was never the intelligence, it was the meter and the meter just became optional most people will see a spec demo the part that matters is what it lets you stop paying for full breakdown below

one half of this keynote sells you the cloud forever, the other half shows the chip that lets you stop renting it this is the other half, AMD's CEO holding the chip in her hand 00:00 - Lisa Su introduces the Ryzen AI Halo, a system built for local AI 00:29 - the line that matters, it runs models up to 200 billion parameters locally, not connected to anything 00:42 - a 200 billion parameter model, the tier of the top paid AI plans, on a desktop that fits in your hand so the cloud wants $200 a month, forever, for access you never own this is the box that runs the same class of model with nothing leaving the room that is the whole point of my breakdown, the $200 a month was never the intelligence, it was the meter and the meter just became optional most people will see a spec demo the part that matters is what it lets you stop paying for full breakdown below

John Doe

25,960 views • 4 months ago

This white box on your house wall makes $3,000 a month from Nvidia A white panel the size of a small box bolts right onto your wall. Inside it runs Nvidia AI workloads 24/7. Nvidia teamed up with Pultegroup and SPAN to install these in brand new homes. The box processes AI tasks for companies remotely. Nvidia pays you a flat $3,000 a month just for having it on your wall. You do nothing. It just runs. That is $36,000 a year from a box you never touch. Thousands of new homes are being built with this already baked in. Your house becomes part of the AI infrastructure without you lifting a finger. The suburbs are turning into the new data centers. And the people living there are getting paid for it. Save this before your neighbor signs up before you do.

winkle.

44,838 views • 5 months ago

This guy turned a $250K cloud bill into a $2,999 Nvidia box on his desk. One box. One-time charge. Same size as a Mac mini. Runs the workload AWS was charging him $1,900/month for. He made $22,000 in a year just from the bill he stopped paying. The kicker: it speaks OpenAI-compatible API out of the box. Migrating his existing stack was 1 line of code. - No more cloud GPUs. - No more monthly meter. - No more "let me check the AWS dashboard before I run that." Full build, exact math, and what the box actually runs is in the article below 👇

This guy turned a $250K cloud bill into a $2,999 Nvidia box on his desk. One box. One-time charge. Same size as a Mac mini. Runs the workload AWS was charging him $1,900/month for. He made $22,000 in a year just from the bill he stopped paying. The kicker: it speaks OpenAI-compatible API out of the box. Migrating his existing stack was 1 line of code. - No more cloud GPUs. - No more monthly meter. - No more "let me check the AWS dashboard before I run that." Full build, exact math, and what the box actually runs is in the article below 👇

ZEUS⚡️

14,529 views • 5 months ago

An entire empire was overthrown over a two percent tax on a breakfast beverage. Look at what you tolerate now. You are taxed when you earn it. Taxed when you spend it. Taxed when you save it. Taxed when you invest it. And when you die, they tax whatever is left. That is not a system. That is a harvest. You commute in a car you paid sales tax to buy. You drive it on roads you were already taxed to build. You fill it with gas taxed by the gallon. When you sell that car, the next buyer pays sales tax on it again. The same car. Taxed every time it changes hands. You arrive at a job where your salary is cut before it ever touches your hands. If you work for yourself, you pay both sides. Two people on paper. Neither one keeps what they earned. Then you go home. Every bill you open has a government standing behind it with its hand out. You buy a house with money they already took their share of. Then they charge you property tax on it every year for the rest of your life. You want to renovate your own kitchen. You need a permit. You want to build a deck on your own land. You need a permit. You pay for the property. Then you pay for permission to use it. Stop paying property tax and they seize your home. Not because you missed a mortgage payment. Because you missed a payment to the government for the privilege of keeping what is already yours. You do not own your home. You rent it from the state. If you leave something behind for your children, they are taxed on what you were already taxed to earn. The same wealth. Taxed at every stage of your life. Then taxed one final time because you had the audacity to die. They found a way to monetize your absence. We are told this is the price of civilization. It is not. It is architecture. The most effective prison ever built is the one where the inmates believe they are free. They did not take your freedom. They priced you out of it. If you kept the full value of your labor, you would be free within years. Not decades. Years. The system cannot allow that. A machine built on consumption needs a consumer that never stops. You did not sign a social contract. You were assigned one. Now pay attention. They spent decades perfecting the extraction of your productivity. Now they are building the technology to replace you. AI is not coming for your job because corporations are greedy. It is coming because a system that already takes half your output just realized it can take all of it. Without needing you in the equation. You were never the point of this arrangement. You were the input. And the moment they engineer a cheaper one, you become a rounding error on a quarterly earnings call. They did not build AI to free you. They built it to finish what the tax code started. It was never about the tea. It was about the precedent. Today we hand over half our waking lives and thank them for the potholes. You do not live in a free economy. You live in a subscription you never signed up for. And the penalty for canceling is everything you have.

An entire empire was overthrown over a two percent tax on a breakfast beverage. Look at what you tolerate now. You are taxed when you earn it. Taxed when you spend it. Taxed when you save it. Taxed when you invest it. And when you die, they tax whatever is left. That is not a system. That is a harvest. You commute in a car you paid sales tax to buy. You drive it on roads you were already taxed to build. You fill it with gas taxed by the gallon. When you sell that car, the next buyer pays sales tax on it again. The same car. Taxed every time it changes hands. You arrive at a job where your salary is cut before it ever touches your hands. If you work for yourself, you pay both sides. Two people on paper. Neither one keeps what they earned. Then you go home. Every bill you open has a government standing behind it with its hand out. You buy a house with money they already took their share of. Then they charge you property tax on it every year for the rest of your life. You want to renovate your own kitchen. You need a permit. You want to build a deck on your own land. You need a permit. You pay for the property. Then you pay for permission to use it. Stop paying property tax and they seize your home. Not because you missed a mortgage payment. Because you missed a payment to the government for the privilege of keeping what is already yours. You do not own your home. You rent it from the state. If you leave something behind for your children, they are taxed on what you were already taxed to earn. The same wealth. Taxed at every stage of your life. Then taxed one final time because you had the audacity to die. They found a way to monetize your absence. We are told this is the price of civilization. It is not. It is architecture. The most effective prison ever built is the one where the inmates believe they are free. They did not take your freedom. They priced you out of it. If you kept the full value of your labor, you would be free within years. Not decades. Years. The system cannot allow that. A machine built on consumption needs a consumer that never stops. You did not sign a social contract. You were assigned one. Now pay attention. They spent decades perfecting the extraction of your productivity. Now they are building the technology to replace you. AI is not coming for your job because corporations are greedy. It is coming because a system that already takes half your output just realized it can take all of it. Without needing you in the equation. You were never the point of this arrangement. You were the input. And the moment they engineer a cheaper one, you become a rounding error on a quarterly earnings call. They did not build AI to free you. They built it to finish what the tax code started. It was never about the tea. It was about the precedent. Today we hand over half our waking lives and thank them for the potholes. You do not live in a free economy. You live in a subscription you never signed up for. And the penalty for canceling is everything you have.

Dustin

27,945 views • 6 months ago

mark zuckerberg just did the pettiest thing in tech: he gave away a model one point below gpt-5.6 for free, purely to make sam altman's $200 subscription look insane. it worked. the free one scores 61 to openai's 62 on every benchmark that ships, and it runs on a card you already own. the $200 you hand altman every month is now the price of a single point you cannot feel. here is the whole switch, and it runs for about $6 instead of $400: -> pull the open model zuckerberg dropped and serve it on localhost in one line, so every app that used to call openai now calls your own machine -> keep cursor, cline and your own scripts exactly as they are, none of them notice the endpoint left openai for your gpu -> send the rare heavy job to a rented nvidia card by the hour and keep the daily work local for the cost of electricity -> your $200 chatgpt seat and your $200 claude seat both go quiet, and the bill drops the same week here is the part they will fight me on: openai and anthropic are not selling a smarter model anymore, they are selling one benchmark point and a monthly invoice. zuckerberg just proved the point is free, and once the point is free, $200 is not a price, it is a dare. the full switch is in the article below. save it before the next open model passes them outright and the dare turns into a joke.

mark zuckerberg just did the pettiest thing in tech: he gave away a model one point below gpt-5.6 for free, purely to make sam altman's $200 subscription look insane. it worked. the free one scores 61 to openai's 62 on every benchmark that ships, and it runs on a card you already own. the $200 you hand altman every month is now the price of a single point you cannot feel. here is the whole switch, and it runs for about $6 instead of $400: -> pull the open model zuckerberg dropped and serve it on localhost in one line, so every app that used to call openai now calls your own machine -> keep cursor, cline and your own scripts exactly as they are, none of them notice the endpoint left openai for your gpu -> send the rare heavy job to a rented nvidia card by the hour and keep the daily work local for the cost of electricity -> your $200 chatgpt seat and your $200 claude seat both go quiet, and the bill drops the same week here is the part they will fight me on: openai and anthropic are not selling a smarter model anymore, they are selling one benchmark point and a monthly invoice. zuckerberg just proved the point is free, and once the point is free, $200 is not a price, it is a dare. the full switch is in the article below. save it before the next open model passes them outright and the dare turns into a joke.

starmex

105,174 views • 1 month ago