Local models aren't 'useless': privacy, real-time needs and enterprise use cases favor the edge
chrisgrayson · x · 2026-09-27
Pushing back on the contrarian takes that local open-weight models are 'useless,' the author argues it's a matter of use case: for consumer apps, mobile and wearables like smart glasses, local models with mesh/P2P networking beat the cloud on privacy, security and real-time response. For enterprises, local deployment at scale is superior for mission-critical work, internal operations and protecting trade secrets. Update cycles aren't a local-only burden, and the cloud also brings centralized power. For many applications, he says, the cloud is far overrated.
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