Vitalik Says Real "CROPS AI" Must Run Across Hardware Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin updated his progress on local AI, saying DeepSeek V4 now has a 2-bit quantized version that can run within about 90 GB of VRAM, reaching roughly 35 tokens per second on Apple hardware and about 7 tokens per second on AMD hardware. Vitalik said true "CROPS AI" should support multiple hardware platforms, rather than being framed only as "decentralized AI." He added that a "CROPS Ethereum access layer" overlaps with CROPS AI, including ZK-based paid remote LLM calls and private Ethereum RPC reads, and called for more Ethereum-tuned AI models to improve smart contract and protocol-code security. x.com/VitalikButerin/status/20...…