About whether local AI models can become the norm on consumer hardware.
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About whether local AI models can become the norm on consumer hardware.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
it's not going to happen with LLMs unless ram + storage gets several orders of magnitude cheaper like, yesterday
informatics aren't magic, you'll never be able to compress """knowledge""" into a small model in a way equivalent to the 1.5 TB model