Frontier AI Typically Takes About 25 Months to Reach Local Laptops

A LocalLLaMA community chart estimated that frontier cloud-model capabilities take about 24.8 months on average to become runnable locally on a laptop via open models. Examples cited include GPT-3 at 37 months, GPT-3.5 at 17, and GPT-4 at roughly 24, leading some to project Fable Level 5 could arrive locally in about two years.

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