"Frontier models are now unaffordable — run open-source Chinese models locally"
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-12
Investor Stewart Alsop III argues frontier models have become unaffordable for anyone but big corporations, with Opus now "the pleb model." His advice: make do with Opus and Sol, and get open-source Chinese models running locally — that's the future for regular users.
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