AI KOL: fly-model memes show people want to own models, and local runnability is why
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-12
Commenting on the viral brain-EEG-to-fly-brain experiments, this AI figure argues the meme wave reveals a real hunger for people to own and control their own models. The virality hinges on the model being small enough to run locally — and once compute density is solved, everyone will want to run models on their own hardware.
The take ties into the broader trend of open small models and on-device deployment, framing "personally owned models" as a long-term direction.
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