While they can be run locally, and most of the discussion on HN about that, I bet that if you look at total tok/day local usage is a tiny amount compared to total cloud inference even for these models. Most people who do use them locally just do a prompt every now and then.

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zozbot234 7 hours ago | parent [-]

This is why I'd like to see a lot more focus on batched inference with lower-end hardware. If you just do a tiny amount of tok/day and can wait for the answer to be computed overnight or so, you don't really need top-of-the-line hardware even for SOTA results.

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deaux 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> If you just do a tiny amount of tok/day and can wait for the answer to be computed overnight or so

But they can't? The usage pattern is the polar opposite. Most people running these models locally just ask a few questions to it throughout the day. They want the answers now, or at least within a minute.

	▲	zozbot234 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you want the answer right now, that alone ups your compute needs to the point where you're probably better off just using a free hosted-AI service. Unless the prompt is trivial enough that it can be answered quickly by a tiny local model.