The Verge reporter tests running local AI with Hermes Agent on the M5 Ultra Mac Studio
A The Verge author installed the open-source self-hosted agent application Hermes Agent on an M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256GB of unified memory, paired with the approximately 105GB, 125-billion-parameter Qwen 3.8 Flash Next model, to begin experimenting with local AI.
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