Cephalon Lucy AI Studio Max review: a Strix Halo NAS for local AI

Cephalon's Lucy AI Studio Max is a cube-shaped mini PC and NAS built on AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB of RAM, able to run local models of around 100GB. The Pro, Max and Ultra versions cost $799, $2,799 and $3,999 on Kickstarter, with retail prices of $899, $3,999 and $4,999; the first 50 units ship about a week after the campaign ends.

• AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, 128GB LPDDR5X at 8000MT/s, ~100GB for models
• Five 3.5-inch bays and two M.2 NVMe slots, up to 10Gb/s networking
• Qwen 3.8 Flash Next ran at around 44 tokens per second
• Kickstarter pricing $799, $2,799 and $3,999; retail $899, $3,999 and $4,999