The AI war is moving from models to machines and I don’t think enough people are talking about it

Okay so I’ve been thinking about this for a while and finally wrote it out properly everyone’s still arguing about benchmarks and which model is smarter but like… that’s starting to feel like the wrong fight? the interesting question is where the model actually runs. on your device, in a cloud DC, on some edge hardware, inside enterprise infrastructure. that placement question is quietly becoming important than the model quality question a few things that got me thinking about this recently: microsoft’s project solara is not a laptop.