the same argument was made 2 years ago: "in 2 years we'll be able to run GPT-4 level models on an expensive laptop, most people will be using this instead of th

the same argument was made 2 years ago: "in 2 years we'll be able to run GPT-4 level models on an expensive laptop, most people will be using this instead of the fancy cloud models". we are there, Gemma4/Qwen3.6 are GPT-4 level models runnable on a fancy laptop. but expectations shifted, nobody wants a GPT-4 level model anymore