> So the DGX Spark is a joke, really.

Not at all sure about that. They have really good compute, and DeepSeek V4 (with antirez's 2-bit expert layer quant) may be able to leverage that compute via parallel inference - the jury is still out on that. Now if you had said Strix Halo/Strix Point or perhaps the Intel close equivalents, that would've been a slightly stronger case.

> So many expect an M5 Max Mac Studio with 1TB/s+ bandwidth and specs up to 256GB or 512GB, probably for ~$10k later this year.

This is what I'm really waiting for. It will enable models comparable to current SOTA at the enthusiast price range.

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