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they usually release Pro or Max model later:

M4: May 2024

M4 pro/max: Oct 2024

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-introduces-m4-c...

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apple-introduces-m4-p...

M3: same time

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/10/apple-unveils-m3-m3-p...

M2: June 2022

M2 pro/max: Jan 2023

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/06/apple-unveils-m2-with...

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/apple-unveils-m2-pro-...

No doubt the "wider" versions of the M5 are coming.

My hope is that they are taking longer because of a memory system upgrade that will make running significantly more powerful LLMs locally more feasible.

I assume that would come with the next release cycle of the MacBook? Isn’t that supposed to be early next year?

Apparently not until early next year. I was surprised by this too, but I hadn’t really been following the rumors at all, so I didn’t really have any grounds for being surprised by this.