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Quant PoorJUNKYARD CERTIFIED

Quality AI on junkyard builds.Champagne AI ambitions.Yard-sale hardware budget.

Animated comedy plus real budget AI builds. You don't need a data center to run good AI. I pull hardware out of the scrap pile, put real models on it, and show what actually works.

Illustration: Matt Cox at a computer in a futuristic labquant poor // lab
Gus, the Quant Poor raccoon, winking and giving a thumbs-up in headphonesgus // mascot
Gus the raccoon proudly holding a graphics card
// MEET THE MASCOT

Meet Gus.

Quant Poor's resident raccoon. If somebody threw out a perfectly good graphics card, Gus has probably already dragged it home.

He shows up in the animated episodes. The hardware he finds shows up in the real builds.

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Fresh out of the scrap pile.

Watch the latest builds, experiments and animated misadventures on the channel.

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// THE BUILDS

Real models on rescued hardware.

Salvaged, scavenged and rescued machines running models locally, with no cloud bill, tested on camera.

SPEC SHEETEP. ???
Hardwaresalvaged, scavenged, rescued
Budgetless than you think
Modelsrun local, no cloud bill
Verdicttested on camera
Gus the raccoon next to a red wagon piled with computer parts
A nervous crash-test dummy in a dented helmet, sweating
⚠ CAUTION · JUNKYARD HARDWARE

Tested so you don't have to.

Old power supplies, mystery fans, cards with one too many owners. Every build gets run on camera before anyone calls it a win. Gus finds the parts. Our crash-test dummy stands closest when they power on.

If it smokes, you'll see it smoke. That's the point.

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