My comparison was today's local AI to today's SOTA commercial AI. Both have improved, no argument.

It's more cost effective for someone to pay $20 to $100 month for a Claude subscription compared to buying a 512 gig Mac Studio for $10K. We won't discuss the cost of the NVidia rig.

I mess around with local AI all the time. It's a fun hobby, but the quality is still night and day.