> the implications are pretty big. It would mean you could run "frontier level" performance in one box at home.

That wouldn't surprise me at all actually, models like Qwen3.6-35B are comparable to frontier level models from a year ago and I wouldn't be surprised if we had self-hostable open weight models matching Opus 4.7 in a year. Assuming that Google has one year of advance against Chinese lab isn't far fetched given how much resources they have compared to their Chinese competitors.