The New Yorker had a recent piece on Whisper as well. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/whispers-of-ais-modular-future https://www.newyorker.

The New Yorker had a recent piece on Whisper as well. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/whispers-of-ais-modular-future https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/whispers... For them, the key difference (other than it's great performance) was that it was a standalone executable that did not need to access remote resources or "share" sensitive information with such remote resources.