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Hardware & Local AI

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Silicon architectures, VRAM requirements, GPU benchmarks, Apple Silicon unified memory, and local LLM deployment.

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Forensic TCO audit: H100 GPU rental fell from $8.50 to $3.99/GPU-hr by September 2026. AWS p5.48xlarge costs $55.04/hr list but $9.85+/GPU-hr all-in after egress, FSx, VPC fees, and enterprise support taxes. Full break-even math, InfiniBand MFU comparison, and GPU MSA negotiation playbook — by Pooja Iyer, EyesTech Systems Lab.

Leaked specifications and canary tests for xAI’s upcoming Grok 4.7 disclose a 2.1T parameter MoE architecture, supplemental pre-training on SpaceX telemetry, Pareto dominance over Claude Fable on CursorBench, and the physical limits of the 200,000-GPU Colossus supercluster.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that ‘AGI has arrived’ with GPT-6 Astra trained on ~100K+ Grace Blackwell NVL72 in Abilene, Texas. Here is why the claim falls apart under ARC-AGI 3 benchmark audits and the 786 MW substation power wall confronting the 400K GPU expansion.