Vitalik Buterin Pushes For Hardware-Diverse CROPS AI As DeepSeek V4 Runs Locally On Apple And AMD
The post Vitalik Buterin Pushes For Hardware-Diverse CROPS AI As DeepSeek V4 Runs Locally On Apple And AMD appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The term “decentralized AI” gets thrown around often, but Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is drawing a sharper line. For him, the real test of an AI system that can serve crypto users isn’t just where the inference happens—it’s whether the model runs across a range of actual hardware, from a MacBook to an AMD rig. In an update posted to his personal site and flagged by the original report, Buterin pointed to a concrete benchmark: DeepSeek V4 now has a 2-bit quantized version that fits within about 90 GB of VRAM, hitting roughly 35 tokens per second on Apple hardware and about 7 tokens per second on AMD. That matters more than many realize. For months, the AI-crypto conversation has been split between centralized cloud inference and grand schemes for decentralized compute networks. Buterin’s “CROPS AI” concept—short for Consequential, Recove