Virtified's MacBook might be good enough. Stanford researchers dropped a research paper in mid-November that challenges the cloud-centric delivery model of AI inference due to the following factors. Here's my bottom line: The "Intelligence Per Watt" framework shows that appropriate AI models running on consumer devices are becoming viable for the majority of everyday queries.

Kingfisher Group CTO Chris Blatchford: "We're not anti-big vendors — especially of ERP systems — but we do need to see the value."

Don't reinvent the wheel. Don't use containers and Kubernetes for stateful workloads unless you have solid business justification.