www.lesswrong.com/posts/hXozGp2rsbZgXnH3o/can-a-superintelligence-do-that

The claim uses the universal phrase “all modern AIs”, so a single documented counterexample is enough to make it false.

There are clear official counterexamples:

• Apple’s Apple Intelligence page says “Any app can tap into the on-device models that power Apple Intelligence, and the features you build work offline.” That means at least some modern AI models are designed to run on-device, without requiring an Internet-connected machine for inference.
• Microsoft’s Windows AI developer page likewise advertises “on-device AI experiences,” “Foundry Local for running OSS models on-device,” and “Run custom AI models locally on any Windows device.” Again, that directly contradicts the claim that all modern AIs are on Internet-connected computers.

The post may be making a broader rhetorical point about frontier training setups, but the literal sentence as written is factually incorrect because offline and local AI systems plainly exist.