It's going to happen very soon, which is why these frontier labs are scrambling to shut down open source language models. There's an existential risk threatening their obscene returns.
It is for that reason they are being archived and torrented as a very large middle finger.
> It's going to happen very soon
Why? You can't just assert it. There are very good reasons to think it won't happen soon, and you've given no reasons to think it will happen soon.
I feel like cost competitiveness of local has been going down, if anything, not up. API providers can use hardware more and have scale efficiencies. Do you see any reason this will reverse?