Locally Runnable Models Still Years Behind
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-07-08
Miles Brundage points out that the gap between open-source and closed-source models might only be a "few months," but the gap between running on data center hardware versus running on personal hardware could be "a few years."
He adds that while this difference might not matter for many use cases, it becomes critical in emergency situations and scenarios with strict privacy requirements.
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