[evilduck]

They are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on data centers filled with GPUs that cost more than an average car and then months on training models to serve your current $20/mo plan. Do you legitimately think there's a cheaper or free alternative that is of the same quality?

I guess you could technically run the huge leading open weight models using large disks as RAM and have close to the "same quality" but with "heat death of the universe" speeds.