[Hamuko]

>Also, have you noticed as top-end Mac Studios got downgraded recently? They don't want you to have access to frontier models. And you will not have it.

Isn't that a function of RAM supply not being available now?

[aceazzameen]

OpenAI did buy out the RAM supply to block competition. Arguably local models are one of its (smaller) competitors.

Even if that weren't the case, every corp _needs_ you to be on a subscription.

[Hamuko]

They didn't really even buy the RAM. But there's pretty significant demand for RAM in general with data centers being planned left and right.