Subjective, but if we compare to compute not everyone needs the most expensive laptops or super computers for their work.
I think frontier models will be invaluable for scientific research, defense, financial analysis and such. But the average person probably would be reasonably well-served with a local model.
If you're in sales, customer service, product management and such - the leading open models at the 30B mark are already good enough.
Subjective, but if we compare to compute not everyone needs the most expensive laptops or super computers for their work.
I think frontier models will be invaluable for scientific research, defense, financial analysis and such. But the average person probably would be reasonably well-served with a local model.
If you're in sales, customer service, product management and such - the leading open models at the 30B mark are already good enough.