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Why do people keep referring to 128 GB RAM?

Hello everyone, Going over some posts here, a lot of people keep referring to 128 GB RAM as their minimum for hosting local AI and anything below that is not worth it. Why is that? Is it because of Qwen Flash Next, is the model that good and is it able to do anything you would need from local AI? I…

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  1. 2026-10-21 18:23 · r/LocalLLM
    Why do people keep referring to 128 GB RAM?

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