By Finimize Newsroom
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 19:09:00
those rules on each device; Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia plan to use the tools. Microsoft also highlighted that some models can now run locally on capable PCs, but it set a high bar: it said a version of DeepSeek’s V4 needs at least 60 GB of memory. That matters because the Surface Laptop Ultra starts at $2,599 and can reach $5,899, and Reuters noted a memory-chip crunch that’s pushing prices higher – meaning “local AI” may be limited by budgets as much as by software.
Why should I care?
For markets: DeepSeek V4’s 60 GB minimum turns “local AI” into a hardware budget question.
Running agents on laptops only scales if companies can afford enough high-memory machines. With a 60 GB requirement and a $2,599 starting price during a memory-chip crunch, many firms are likely to treat endpoint AI as a capital spending decision, rolling it out first to teams with clear privacy needs or big productivity gains. Until high-memory PCs get cheaper and more available, the shift…
