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by denkmoon 115 days ago
Where do you get the AI acceleration? Apple Silicon chips are decent AI perf for the price afaiu
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There's no need for (local) AI acceleration if you are leveraging a remote LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). The vast, vast majority of users are most likely just making API calls to a remote service. No need for specialized or beefy hardware.