WiCi One, Checked: A 748B AI Off an SSD, and What a 256 GB Mac Studio Does Instead

By Sofia Reyes A YouTube video that ran a 748-billion-parameter AI model on a box with a 32 GB graphics card holds up under checking, Novel Cognition found, though how it compares with a big-memory Mac depends on which model you run. NetworkChuck’s 30 October 2026 video, sponsored by WiCi and disclosed as such, shows WiCi One, an RTX 5090 or RTX 5060 Ti in a Wi-Fi 7 box that every laptop, tablet and Mac in the house can use as its own graphics card. On camera it ran DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at about eight tokens a second by streaming most of the model from a solid-state drive. Novel Cognition checked 21 of the video’s claims against DeepSeek’s model card, WiCi’s open-source InferSSD code and benchmark notes, and Apple’s specification pages, then ran four tests on its own Mac Studio on 31 October 2026. The full analysis, with charts and sources, is at familygpu.novcog.us.com.

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