Apple's 512GB M3 Ultra Remains Unrivaled for Local AI, Researcher Begs for M5 Ultra
jamesdouma · x · 2026-08-03
James Douma notes a strange phenomenon in the current hardware market: the 1-year-old 512GB Apple M3 Ultra remains completely unrivaled for running large local AI models, with no credible contenders on the horizon. He explicitly asks Apple to release a 512GB+ M5 Ultra to meet the massive memory requirements of modern LLMs.
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