If you use AI for a lot of small things, then you can offload the tasks to a locally run server.
Or if you see it as a feature you plan on using for a long time and don't want to have to keep paying big tech for the privilege of using AI, and hell, you already have a nice graphics card, it's perfect.
I'm loathe to find out how he's going to fail his way upwards from this. It's going to pop, and he's going to tumble upwards like he always does. Capitalism is a system that props fools like this up.