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Frontier on a desktop: the weights fit, but the price cap comes from the cloud

Seven weeks of open-weight releases put models within a benchmark generation of the frontier on a $5,499 Mac Studio or a 12 GB gaming GPU, but the measured numbers show batched cloud hosts, not desktops, now set the price of mid-market tokens.