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Apple’s M6 and M5 Ultra Turn the Mac Into a Local AI Workstation

Apple's M6 and M5 Ultra chips, debuting in the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, turn the desktop into a serious local AI workstation — with up to 512GB of unified memory, GPU Neural Accelerators, and clustering over Thunderbolt 5. The economics are the story: run frontier open-weight models on-device instead of paying metered cloud API bills.