Why so much investment in local models when the remote ones are so cheap ? Everyone was fine with remote compute & storage before AI, now they balk?

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t-3 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Cheap remote is probably not going to last forever. Memory prices will eventually drop. Local models will be more than enough for many purposes when the hardware is available cheaply enough.

	▲	tonymet 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		that's a lot of ifs / whens , and the remote models work right now, and are cheap. It's not a gym membership.