aegis_cameraMar 20

MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System

https://www.sharpai.org/benchmark/

HomeSec-Bench — Local AI vs Cloud Benchmark | SharpAI Aegis

Qwen3.5-9B scores 93.8% on 96 real security AI tests — within 4 points of GPT-5.4 — running entirely on Apple Silicon. Full benchmark results and methodology.

Show threadhparadizMar 20
Currently the barrier to entry for local models is about $2500. Funny thing is $2500 is about the amount my parents paid for a 166 MHZ machine in 1995.
Show threadsegmondy
This is very false. My first system was a 3060 which you can buy new for about $300 or used for about $200. If you already have an existing system you can use it, else you can pick up a used PC for about $150. Entry is about $500.
Mar 20 at 5:09pmWeb
Show threadjohndoughMar 20

Perhaps OP was referring to a usable agentic system, for which $2500 sounds about right.

I've got a 3060 myself, which is nice to play around with the smaller models for free (minus electricity) and with 100% uptime, but I was not able to program anything with them yet that I didn't want to rewrite completely. A heavily quantized Qwen3.5-27B model is getting close though. Maybe in a few months.

Show threadhparadizMar 20

I was actually thinking of the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 which compiles the linux kernel in 62 seconds and is the first usable integrated graphics solution I've seen.

Benchmarks: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rpw17y/ryzen_a...