Ornith vs Claude: does a $700 box really come close? I tested it.

Claude Sonnet vs a $700 home AI box: a four-GPU rig built from 2016 Tesla P100 server cards running a 35B model came in ahead of Claude Sonnet on a hard competition-math suite. What's in the video: The $700 box that beat Claude Sonnet on hard math (real receipts, no data center) Four Tesla P100s from 2016 you can still buy Why a 35B model runs fast on this hardware Ornith, in three facts Where it matched the frontier on hard competition math A 9B model that placed out of 29 on a clean suite The moment I caught my own grader marking correct answers wrong I'm @the_contextian. I break down one real AI story every evening so you're never behind on AI — subscribe for the daily Evening Context brief. #claude #localllm #aibenchmarks #ornith #homelab