Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
Feels to me like local models are an under-covered aspect of this whole AI boom. If everything improves over time, at some point a good chunk of tasks won’t need to be done in data centers or be subject to the whims of a few frontier AI labs. How close are we to that? Or is my thinking flawed? 4 comments on Hacker News.
Feels to me like local models are an under-covered aspect of this whole AI boom. If everything improves over time, at some point a good chunk of tasks won’t need to be done in data centers or be subject to the whims of a few frontier AI labs. How close are we to that? Or is my thinking flawed?
Feels to me like local models are an under-covered aspect of this whole AI boom. If everything improves over time, at some point a good chunk of tasks won’t need to be done in data centers or be subject to the whims of a few frontier AI labs. How close are we to that? Or is my thinking flawed? 4 comments on Hacker News.
Feels to me like local models are an under-covered aspect of this whole AI boom. If everything improves over time, at some point a good chunk of tasks won’t need to be done in data centers or be subject to the whims of a few frontier AI labs. How close are we to that? Or is my thinking flawed?
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