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Five tech industry veterans argue about AI that runs on your own hardware. Open weight models, NPUs, home labs, and the real question underneath it all: who controls intelligence, you or a data center?

Every week, one host takes the hot seat to defend a provocative claim while the other four try to take it apart. Then everyone votes. We run the models, test the vendor claims ourselves, and share what actually happened, including the failures.

No hype, no scripts, and nobody here is pretending to have all the answers. We're learning this stuff alongside you, one episode at a time.

New episodes weekly. There's no place like 127.0.0.1.