Local Models Paired with Cloud Lookups is an Intriguing Approach
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-07-08
Miles Brundage stated that he has not yet deeply analyzed the approach of "small local models only routing some queries to the cloud and obfuscating these queries in some way to protect privacy," but he finds this direction very interesting.
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