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These are all great statistics, but how do you explain ClawdBot explosion. Even in lower income countries like China. So much demand that Apple can’t keep up pr

These are all great statistics, but how do you explain ClawdBot explosion. Even in lower income countries like China. So much demand that Apple can’t keep up production of Mac Minis. Why aren’t these folks going towards cloud solutions? Is it cost or is there some consideration for having more control over their data?

zozbot234 6mo ago
ClawBot doesn't generally run the model locally, it just talks to remote APIs. No different than any other agentic harness. You could run a local model on the same Mac Mini as your agent, but it wouldn't be very smart and many agentic tasks around computer GUI/browser use, etc. would be out of reach.
raw_anon_1111 6mo ago
And people using Clawdbot are still not using local inference for the most part… They aren’t buying high end $2000+ Mac Minis.
bigyabai 6mo ago
> Why aren’t these folks going towards cloud solutions? They are. The majority aren't doing inference on a Mac Mini, but instead using it as a local host for cloud-based inference. You could have the same general experience on a $200 Chromebook or $300 Windows box.
- JSR_FDED 6mo ago
  Not if you want to use Messages to talk to it.
  - bigyabai 6mo ago
    If you refuse to abandon iMessage for $300 in MSRP savings, you are beyond helping.
victorbjorklund 6mo ago
They are running cloud models in almost all cases. Like saying it isn’t cloud when you use the Facebook app on your phone (it is ON your phone and running there).