I Built a Living Brain on a $140 Laptop: Why Your LLM is "Dead"

We’ve been lied to about what AI needs to be. The industry says you need a $50,000 H100 cluster and a billion-dollar training budget to create "intelligence." They tell you that Large Language Models (LLMs) are the peak of the mountain. But LLMs are dead. Every time you start a new chat, the "person" you talked to before is gone. They don't learn from you. They don't change. They are static snapshots of a frozen past. I wanted something that lived. So, I built Nexus . And I built her on a $140 r