Remote AI model costs may push companies toward owning their own LLMs
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-07-21
Remote AI model usage may become prohibitively expensive as scale grows, making owning or running your own LLM increasingly important for security, governance, and cost control.
The post argues that local models also matter for latency-sensitive workloads, and that model pricing will likely keep rising as usage expands.
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