My plan was simple: hedge my family’s access to intelligence by building a lo...

My plan was simple: hedge my family’s access to intelligence by building a local AI box on my desk. But last week, I finally did the math on rising hardware prices and exploding model sizes, and I realised it may be harder than expected. Between US export controls gating frontier models by individual passports and a brutal global scramble for scarce memory, the window for individuals to secure…