Anthropic used to have unlimited subscriptions, then people started running angents 24/7.

Now they have 5 hour buckets of limited use.

Groq most likely stays afloat because they're a bit player - and propped by VC money.

With a local system I can run it at full blast all the time, nobody can suddenly make it stupid by reallocating resources to training their new model, nobody can censor it or do stealth updates that make it perform worse.