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AI Knowledge Base
What this is: Tony's evolving record of AI releases, hardware configurations, tools, and links worth remembering. Grows daily from the 21:30 knowledge debrief.
What this is NOT — the one rule that keeps this safe:
This file is a library, not a backlog.
Nothing here is a commitment. Reading something interesting and filing it costs nothing. The moment a
find makes Tony want to build something, it goes in the mentor's queue.md and waits its turn behind
the active item — it does not become today's work.
The test of whether this ritual is working: does this file grow while the active item still ships? If the notes grow and Thornhill stalls, the ritual has failed and we cut it. Tony's admitted failure mode is exactly this — investigating too many ideas at once until he's paralysed. A capture ritual is a defence against that, not an invitation to it, but only as long as it stays capture.
Format: dated, one line per entry, link if there is one, no evaluation, no "I should try this."
## YYYY-MM-DD
- <what it is> — <one clause on why it's interesting> — <link>
2026-09-11
- "96 GB VRAM 5090" sold via Alibaba — reported by Tony from a link someone sent.
VERIFIED 2026-09-11 — the claim is true.
- Shenzhen Suqiao Intelligent Technology (a Chinese OEM/ODM, 10+ years making GPUs, boards, servers) listed a modified RTX 5090 with 96 GB on Alibaba at $3,888 — 3× the stock 32 GB. Covered by Tom's Hardware and TechPowerUp, both published 11 Sep 2026.
- Why it's plausible, not fantasy: NVIDIA's own RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell uses the same GB202 silicon with 96 GB of GDDR7. The mod is likely a custom PCB in clamshell mode plus modified firmware — the same route that produced the RTX 4090 48 GB, 3090 48 GB, and 5080 32 GB mods.
- Caveats worth keeping attached: the listing's own specs are internally inconsistent — it claims GDDR6X and 14 Gbps, but GDDR6X only shipped in 2 GB modules (capping clamshell at 48 GB) and runs 19–24 Gbps. Also: no NVIDIA support, no warranty. And the price is all over the map — $3,888 listed, ~$5,900 from other Alibaba sellers, ~$8,200 quoted in Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei market for a card plus the 96 GB swap.
- Relevance — read this before getting excited: if the cards are real and stable, this is the cheapest route to large-VRAM local inference, which is directly on the path to Tony's stated long-term aim (bots doing the work). But it is gray-market hardware with no recourse. This is a research entry, not a purchase. It goes in the queue if Tony ever wants to act.
Themes to watch
(Added as patterns emerge — the point of a knowledge base is that it eventually tells you something you didn't know you knew.)
- Local inference hardware — VRAM-per-dollar, modified cards, multi-GPU configs. Relevant because Tony's stated long-term goal is automation that runs without renting someone else's model.
- Agent harnesses & orchestration — releasing fast. See the mentor's
notes/deepseek-harness.mdfor the DeepSeek Harness briefing (parked).