[zingelshuher]

> It is unlikely people are going to switch en mass to open source models

It depends on the task at hands. For complex tasks no way personal computer can compete with giants data centers. But, as soon as software becomes available, users will gladly switch to local AI for personal data search / classification / summation, etc. This market is potentially huge, for private sensitive there is no other way.

[verdverm]

Can you point to any other software where this is true? Why do you think this will be different?

[j45]

Tools like LM studio are interesting.

You can find a model, one click download and use relative to what your computer can do. You can rightsize it

Easy to run on a MBP for end users.