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denkmoon 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

Where do you get the AI acceleration? Apple Silicon chips are decent AI perf for the price afaiu

rocmcd 4 months ago [–]

There's no need for (local) AI acceleration if you are leveraging a remote LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). The vast, vast majority of users are most likely just making API calls to a remote service. No need for specialized or beefy hardware.

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