I'd like to think so but the existence of Google and Apple and Microsoft's cloud based photo tools with phone integration suggests that's false.

You could run a pretty good home server on $50 of gear and yet we never saw any real adoption of OwnCloud/NextCloud style products as an alternative to Google Drive/Photos or Apple Cloud.

Why should LLM/Transformers be any different? Especially when you need a proper expensive GPU to run them instead of a Raspberry Pi?

Apple's photo tools run on device, and they'll probably ship more on device foundation models at WWDC too.

On-device AI is going to be important, I think. It doesn't have to take the form of a chatbot UI to be useful.

After the latest round of cloud storage price increases my non technical wife has been asking if we can do local backups instead...