Open-Source Efficiency Surge: Free Top-Tier Coding AI on MacBooks Within a Year
evijit · x · 2026-07-31
A developer noted that open-source models (like DeepSeek) have driven the industry's focus toward efficiency, fixing the unsustainable inference costs of two years ago. They predict that within a year, users will be able to run a few GBs of high-performance models locally on their MacBooks, getting top-tier coding assistance for free without paying for APIs.
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