You can run a 'frontier' model at home for $3,500, open weights close the gap
0xSero · x · 2026-09-18
- X user 0xSero claims you can now run a "frontier-level" model at home for just $3,500 in hardware.
- Per his follow-up replies, the model in question is DeepSeek's new open-weights release, used for hacking, ML, browser use, computer use, chat and art.
- The post captures the growing sentiment that open-weights models have closed much of the gap with closed frontier models, enough to run locally on consumer-grade rigs.
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