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Manufacturers are building NAS devices into small-model workstations, but the opportunity lies not in selling hardware—rather, in creating plug-and-play industry-specific all-in-one units for sectors hesitant to move data to the cloud."Data should not be uploaded to the cloud."...in specific niche industries.

There are many NAS devices on the market today, and manufacturers are promoting them as workstations for running small models. For example: Ugreen iDX includes a local LLM for semantic image search; Everspring can run DeepSeek locally; Intel is even introducing AI Agents.

Contributor: Qing Ge2026.10.21
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The market now features many NAS devices that manufacturers are pushing to serve as local workstations for small models. For example, Ugreen's iDX includes a built-in local LLM for semantic image search, while Eversave Space can run DeepSeek locally. Intel has even incorporated AI Agents into the core definition of its NAS products. Performance is sufficient—running a 7B model with an N100 and 16GB of RAM yields approximately 12 tokens/s, which is more than adequate for copywriting tasks. Demand is also beginning to emerge; many people are willing to set up AI assistants on their own computers, such as Yi Ren's Super Model, and some are even ready to pay for..."Local small models plus workflows"A complete setup...

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