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Could an M5 Ultra completely replace Claude Opus and GPT as the brain of a 24/7 personal AI agent? Looking for real-world experience

I run a self-hosted personal agent (OpenClaw) 24/7 on an M4 Mac mini with 16GB. Everything runs on cloud models: Claude Opus is the main brain, with GPT and DeepSeek as fallbacks. That's about US$400 a month in subscriptions. I want to know whether a Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra could run the entire…

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  1. 2026-10-02 06:22 · r/LocalLLM
    Could an M5 Ultra completely replace Claude Opus and GPT as the brain of a 24/7 personal AI agent? Looking for real-world experience

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