Some individuals will choose some $10,000 hardware so they can keep freedom and privacy and that's well and good, my point is just that freedom and privacy is not what wins marketshare, and hence, IMHO, local LLMs are not going to catch up and surpass frontier models like some in this thread like to claim
> freedom and privacy is not what wins marketshare
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