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alganet | 3 months ago

If plain open-source local models were able to do what Claude API does, Anthropic would be out of business.

Local models are a different thing than those cloud-based assistants and APIs.

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lmm|3 months ago

> If plain open-source local models were able to do what Claude API does, Anthropic would be out of business.

Not necessarily. Oracle has made billions selling a database that's less good than plain open-source ones, for example.

dboreham|3 months ago

It wasn't originally less good. For at least 20 years it was much better.