My iPhone 13 can’t run most of these models. A decent local LLM is one of the few reasons I can imagine actually upgrading earlier than typically necessary.

I’ve got a 17 pro and tbh I haven’t found any use for local models yet. They are a neat curiosity but the online ones are absolutely massively far ahead. Considering they are being given away for free currently, it’s hard to justify not making use of them over dumber local models.