Local AI on a laptop is improving more than twice as fast as Moore's Law. The most expensive MacBook Pro you could buy in May 2024 had 128 GB of unified memory. Two years later, the hardware is identical. But the smartest open-weight model you can run on it went from a score of 10 to 47 on the AI Intelligence Index. A 4.7x improvement in 24 months on completely unchanged hardware. Moore's Law doubles transistor count every 24 months. Local open-weight AI is doubling capability every 10.7 months. The hardware ceiling barely moved. The software blew through it. image