Selling 10 iPhones could fund enough GPUs for a local AI lab
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-17
A short quip on compute economics: flip and sell 10 iPhones and you'd have enough money to buy the GPUs needed to power a local AI lab — a jab at the price gap between consumer hardware and accelerators.
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