The $5,000 Laptop That Just Killed the $100 Billion AI Cloud Industry
A developer runs a frontier AI model on a laptop with 128GB unified memory, streaming it locally with no cloud API calls. This signals the end of expensive cloud inference monopolies. Local hardware has crossed the threshold to run near-frontier models, giving developers autonomy, privacy, and zero marginal cost. The AI cloud business model is being disrupted by the very devices we already own.