# High-powered generative models now run on consumer hardware

- **Speaker:** Zack Abrams
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-07
- **Theme:** Local AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Accelerate 2025 - Zack Abrams on AI Content Generation (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:17 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ45pnrON2Y&t=257s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-ai/2025-07-07-high-powered-generative-models-now-run-on-consumer-sci7/
- **Cite as:** Zack Abrams, "High-powered generative models now run on consumer hardware," Akash Accelerate 2025 - Zack Abrams on AI Content Generation (Akash Network), 7 Jul 2025, 00:04:17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ45pnrON2Y&t=257s

## Quote — verbatim

> What's incredible is that these high-powered models are good enough these days to run on consumer hardware — or as I do often, they can run from the comfort of your MacBook Pro.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Describing his HiDream/ComfyUI workflow. **Speaker:** Zack Abrams, not Greg.