CHINA JUST SHIPPED AN OPEN-WEIGHT MODEL THAT'S BREATHING DOWN GPT-5.5's NECK AND IT COSTS A FRACTION TO RUN.
ZAI dropped GLM 5.2, and it's not just another "me too" release. One prompt, and it builds a full interactive 3D demo. On coding and long-horizon task benchmarks, it's right behind GPT 5.5 and Claude Opus.
Here's the part that actually matters: it's open-weight, and it's smaller. That means cheaper to run, easier to deploy, easier to scale no gatekeeping from a US lab.
The AI race isn't "who builds the biggest model" anymore. It's who builds the smartest model for the lowest cost to run it.
And right now, China just took a serious step ahead on that front.
HE CONNECTED 5 MAC STUDIOS INTO ONE MACHINE — AND IT RUNS A 405 BILLION PARAMETER AI MODEL LOCALLY.
Five M2 Max Mac Studios, 64GB each, linked together using Exo — a free open-source tool that lets Macs auto-discover each other on a network and pool their resources.
The secret is Apple's unified memory architecture. Each Mac's GPU has direct access to its full RAM pool, so stacking five of them together creates a massive combined VRAM array — enough to run Llama 3.1 405B, a model no single gaming PC or home rig can touch.
No cloud. No API. No data center. Just consumer hardware, chained together, running one of the biggest open models that exists.
Full setup walkthrough in his complete video.
£142,000 FROM ONE AI GIRL
This guy took a regular photo and turned it into a hyper-realistic virtual AI model that’s making him insane money.
No real shoots, no face, no limits — just pure AI. The model looks completely real and already generated over £142,000 in earnings.
This is next-level AI monetization happening right now.
PROS: TINY, CHEAP, GREAT PORTS. CONS: NO SD SLOT, AND THE POWER BUTTON IS IN THE WORST POSSIBLE SPOT.
Let's talk about the new Mac Mini M4.
The good: it's absurdly compact, offers one of the best price-to-performance ratios of any current Apple product — even the base config — and has ports on both the front and back, making it a legit desktop PC replacement.
The bad: no built-in SD card slot, which stings for anyone offloading footage regularly.
But the real head-scratcher? Apple put the power button on the bottom. His joke says it all — just hope you don't need to turn this thing on and off too often, because lifting it every single time gets old fast.
Small box, big trade-offs.