Tobi Lütke: local Dell server runs DeepSeek 4.1 Flash at ~300 tok/s, a billion tokens a month
BLUECOW009 · x · 2026-09-21
Tobi Lütke (Shopify CEO) revealed a Dell server running DeepSeek 4.1 Flash locally, at roughly 300 tokens per second with quality somewhere between Opus 4.7 and Opus 5. Not cheap, he says, but a one-time fixed cost now buys about a billion high-quality tokens per month — local inference economics are closing in on frontier APIs.
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