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They do stand in front of a great opportunity that would also benefit consumers, which seems rare in the llm era. If people can get opus4.6/gpt5.5-like models
by 6thbit 3mo ago
They do stand in front of a great opportunity that would also benefit consumers, which seems rare in the llm era.
If people can get opus4.6/gpt5.5-like models locally, labs could raise their prices and sell token speed, better reasoning, mobile-focused improvements, you name it.
Not all consumers are power users and many will be happy to pay for flexibility.
- interludead 3mo agoMost people don't actually want to manage models, updates, context limits, quantization, etc. They just want the thing to work everywhere
- rbanffy 3mo agoOnce one person figures that out and writes a blog post, everybody else can do it.
- oblio 3mo agoYes, just like 90% of regular users set up NASes instead of just using Dropbox or Google Drive. https://xkcd.com/2501/ https://xkcd.com/2501/
- rbanffy 3mo agoThe comparison is against your own computer, which is powerful enough, no need to add a box and set it up, and a very expensive cloud service. It’s nothing like setting up a NAS versus using iCloud (because we are talking Apple here).