Local AI finally got close to the cloud for me, and this loud little cube is why

I have long been intrigued by locally-run AI models, but I’ve never had the hardware to do it—until now. The Cephalon Lucy Max is a small cube-shaped mini PC and NAS combo that delivers AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip with 128GB of RAM, and it’s actually capable of running some pretty impressive local models.