Vik | Practical AI & Tech

Private local AI server for small businesses: your data stays inside your company. Founder @ClaryelCom.

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

1/6 ⚠️ WARNING to everyone running local AI at home or in the office!

Look at this photo. This dust accumulated in LESS THAN 10 DAYS in an ordinary family apartment (with two small kids 😅).

I deliberately didn’t clean it. I wanted to see what would happen.

Now imagine what’s happening INSIDE your MacBooks, Mac Studios, Mac minis and DGX systems. 😳

[Manny Hernandez @m9rcn]

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[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

But the price for 512GB of RAM isn’t actually that high. It’s comparable to server-grade solutions, although technically it’s certainly not the best choice.

Still, there’s definitely a market for machines like this. And it’s no surprise they sold out so quickly at that price! 🚀

I actually expected the price to be a little higher. But I never had the slightest doubt they’d sell out fast. 😄🔥

[S M A Sithick @smasithick]

iPhone Duo: IP68, defeated by dust 💀
Galaxy Z Fold8: Built different 🔥

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

@appltrack And at that price, you only get 1TB! 😅💸 They’re selling like hotcakes! 🔥🥞 They’ll all be gone within an hour! ⏳🚀

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

@ivanfioravanti I think they’ll all be sold out within an hour, and the 512GB version will never be available again! ⏳🔥👋

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

I think they’ll be completely sold out in about an hour and never come back! ⏳🔥👋

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

22299$ That’s really cheap! 😄💸

⏱️ Let’s start the clock and see how fast they sell out!

Just 30 minutes ago, delivery was estimated at 3–4 weeks. Now it’s already 5-6 weeks! 🚀🔥

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

🍎💣 Mac Studio M5 Ultra with 512GB unified memory is almost here… and I have a feeling this thing will be at least $25,000. 💸😂

Whatever the final price is, I still think Apple will sell out the first wave insanely fast — maybe in a week, maybe in 24 hours. 🚀

Local AI people: this is either a workstation… or a financial event. 🤖🔥

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

It’s going down in history! 🏛️📜🚀

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

@ai_papa_jikken 26829€ = 29925$

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

🍎💣 Mac Studio M5 Ultra with 512GB unified memory is almost here… and I have a feeling this thing will be at least $25,000. 💸😂

Whatever the final price is, I still think Apple will sell out the first wave insanely fast — maybe in a week, maybe in 24 hours. 🚀

Local AI people: this is either a workstation… or a financial event. 🤖🔥

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

@ivanfioravanti It’s going down in history! 🏛️📜🚀

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

@ai_papa_jikken That’s actually a pretty good price, especially compared to Europe! 😄

[Choblin @choblin29]

Holy shit. Google's Chrome team says Gemini 4 Carbon performed over 10X better than another lab's large frontier model at generating high-quality security patches.

Google also reports over 2X higher secure-code success than Argon, nearly 80% fewer high-severity misalignment alerts, and ZERO successful attacks on its evaluated prompt-injection benchmark.

And Carbon is beating Claude Opus 5.5 on Artificial Analysis, 59 to 58.

I genuinely cannot wait to try this model. I'm VERY, VERY excited.

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

Wow!

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

I did say we'd be releasing our models periodically...introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, our next frontier model.

Following Argon's release just two weeks ago, Carbon shows the pace at which we’re pushing the frontier, it ranks #1 on the recently updated v5.0 of @ArtificialAnlys Intelligence Index at 59. It also leads across key cybersecurity evaluations scoring 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching.

We’re seeing significant improvements in long-horizon tasks even compared to Argon, and we’ve strengthened frontier safeguards.

As we did with Argon, we’re going to roll it out gradually + responsibly. Some trusted cyber defenders will get access starting this week. We'll be expanding it to more partners through our Fairwind Program, ahead of wider availability soon, so hang tight!

[Ronald Mannak @ronaldmannak]

$15,550 just for a 96 to 512 GB memory upgrade… Nope 😬

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

@ai_papa_jikken 22799$ 2tb in USA 👌

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

@ai_papa_jikken https://t.co/TFExIYjIEi

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

USA - 22299$
EU - 25179€ (28000$)

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

https://t.co/TFExIYkgtQ

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

USA - 22299$
EU - 25179€ (28000$)

[Vik | Practical AI & Tech @uctive]

USA - 22299$
EU - 25179€ (28000$)