> spend a ton of time and money Not necessarily. For non-professional purposes, I've spent zero dollars (no additional memory or GPU) and I'm running a local l

> spend a ton of time and money Not necessarily. For non-professional purposes, I've spent zero dollars (no additional memory or GPU) and I'm running a local language model that's good enough to help with many kinds of tasks including writing, coding, and translation. It's a personal, private, budget AI that requires no network connection or third-party servers.