This is actually where I see software going in the short term -- cloud moving to local.

A few years ago, if you wanted translation, you'd use Google Translate. If you wanted to search the web, you'd use Google search.

But for a few gigabytes, you can now install nllb-200-distilled-600M, and get translations for almost any language locally. You can have your computer crawl the web, create abstracts and categorizations for websites, and build search exactly as you want it.

The main limiter now is hard drive space (and to an extent, local compute) -- but right now it feels like the 70s again where the terminal into a remote server turned into building applications locally.

The number of times we've gone from cloud/server access via terminal to local compute back and forth is something that always makes me laugh a bit.