Mac Studio

The general take

Jason Calacanis sees the Mac Studio as a practical, cost-effective machine for running local AI models like Kimi 2.5, describing it as hitting about 80% of the quality of paid services like Claude or Gemini but essentially for free. He's enthusiastic about the setup, noting that his team is moving work onto Mac Studios and using Kimi for easier tasks to avoid subscription costs. The appeal seems to be economic—getting capable AI locally rather than paying for cloud services.

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  …running open source ai models locally on commodity hardware for cost efficiency

  “We are ordering Mac Studios, the really powerful studios with like Mac's memory on them. And they're putting Kimmy. Is that the new open source one? Kimmy K2.5. Yeah, we're putting Kimmy on them. We're going to have free.”

  All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg — ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Droppingat 57:22

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