Opinion: Local Models Enable a New Class of Software with Embedded Intelligence
carsonfarmer · x · 2026-08-29
Argues that the real potential of local models lies not just in sovereignty, but in making inference cheap enough to run everywhere. This allows for intelligence to be embedded at the moment of data creation (e.g., emails, logs), opening a new class of software.
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