Debate: If local models get "good enough", OpenAI and Anthropic are toast
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-11-01
The author endorses Chris Titus's take on when local models become "good enough": once they do, OpenAI and Anthropic's cloud-API business models face an existential threat. He goes further, claiming the labs' moves to restrict the memory/local-deployment market amount to deliberate fear tactics to keep ordinary users on the cloud. A representative voice in the ongoing open-source vs cloud LLM route debate — opinion-driven, without supporting data.
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