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This 22-year-old American developer showed how he makes $14,200 a month using just a dual-GPU setup and Cohere’s new open-weights model. He doesn't have a powerhouse dev team. No massive VC funding. No expensive enterprise infrastructure. He built a "localized AI workflow" powered by the newly dropped Command A+...

214,007 次观看 • 4 个月前 •via X (Twitter)

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CipherEdge4 个月前

Genuinely impressive: built the product, acquired the customers, and stabilised $14,200 MRR on a model that was released 48 hours ago. Either you've solved time travel or "algorithmic mining" is the technical term for making things up in a thread.😂

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Andrew Kuncevich4 个月前

Hmm, Chinese OSS models are becoming truly strong, and I think 2026-2027 will be the time when we'll see more and more Mac minis and other PCs running LLM locally, and (most importantly) they'll produce real results (like Claude Code now). This, by the way, will also further stimulate the hardware market, which is already basking in incredible demand XD

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gobullish.ai4 个月前

Notice what those two GPUs are. They're H100s, not gaming cards. A single H100 runs roughly $25,000–40,000, so a "dual-GPU setup" capable of running Command A+ is a $50,000–80,000 hardware purchase, before the server, power, and cooling around it. That's not a kid's bedroom rig. Who is buying? Where are customers?

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Yarchi4 个月前

so smart setup

Bokiko 的头像
Bokiko4 个月前

hey @grok how accurate is this info and numbers ? is is a engagement bait ?

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Hussain Hashim | Building SundayBack4 个月前

@ridark_eth wild how much you can achieve without all the typical startup fluff. makes me rethink needing tons of cash and a big team to get stuff done.

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Bober_smart4 个月前

The most interesting thing is that there is nothing difficult about it, literally anyone can handle it

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Wembassy4 个月前

Curious what does `Enterprise-level` tasks mean exactly. Are you doing project work for clients, or something else?

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novyJ234 个月前

... please tell me what are his customers paying him $14500 a month,... but with recipes! Remove any HIPPA info, and just show recipe he was paid for what he sold,... and what he sold.

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Jeff Camp, CFA4 个月前

I’ve been hearing really good things about Cohere. Thanks for sharing this.

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cvxv6664 个月前

that’s solid earn for such thing fr

Shubham Sharma | AI & Tech 的头像
Shubham Sharma | AI & Tech4 个月前

Total setup time: 3 days not too long for such results

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raccoonwannafly4 个月前

these clowns dont even know wtf theyre posting just letting grok do all the captioning for them where tf is 14k mmr u claimed??

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Dipanshu Kushwaha4 个月前

That’s impressive! Shows what creativity and resourcefulness can achieve. Excited to see where this goes!

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Ghost Signal4 个月前

2 GPUs. 3 days. $14,200/month. The enterprise infrastructure was never the moat. Access to it was. That’s gone now.

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TeutaAi4 个月前

$14,200/mo on dual-GPU local? show me the invoices and the latency split. my 4-bit local on 4-core does 480ms p50, not enterprise money.

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Nexus Erebus4 个月前

Stop pretending the "no VC, no team" narrative makes this sustainable. Most of these stories are glorified clickbait. The real work happens in the boring middle: maintenance, cost management, and scaling. He's doing it, sure.

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KreativReason.co4 个月前

What gpu is he using?

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Default4 个月前

Can someone explain this in layman terms. How does the money come in. From where? Is he creatine compute as a service? What is translation behind the jargon

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Moysha4 个月前

Efficiency now beats big budgets

Gia huy 的头像
Gia huy4 个月前

オープンウェイトモデルの活用は本当に素晴らしいですね!彼の創造的な方法はとても刺激的です。

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Okino Chills4 个月前

Sure , it's always while he sleeps lol. Who the fuck will pay such losers I want to sell them shit

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leakgambler4 个月前

three subscription tiers in 72 hours is fast for the build but the real clock starts with first paying customer, that timeline is never in these posts

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Grebe4 个月前

dual gpu and 3 days? that’s the real flex here

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Gipp 🦅4 个月前

Hmm, that's an interesting setting

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shmidt4 个月前

14k/month on dual gpus is insane margins. everyone sleeping on local inference

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HodlReaper4 个月前

wow, so smart

Knight 的头像
Knight4 个月前

the result is simply fantastic

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zostaff4 个月前

command a+ moe on 2 gpus, which gpus and what quantization level?

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Ridark4 个月前

Usually, for a local workflow like this, users display it in Mac Studios using 4-bit or 8-bit quantization

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AI in Research4 个月前

Where is he actually offering/selling this service? What field or niche is it in?

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dko4 个月前

Do you have a link to the actual guy in the video

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Chill with Mei 🌥️4 个月前

2 gpus for 14k a month? this local wave hitting different fr inspiring af

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Insomnia4 个月前

he made what I only wonder to create

vijn 的头像
vijn4 个月前

22 y o... wow

Parletto 的头像
Parletto4 个月前

worth watching how he scales this setup

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