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Ah, but have no fear - as lower RAM hardware starts dropping out of the market, the RAM usage of Microsoft Teams will increase to compensate!

(Not even /s - while the developers of LLM applications may have 64GB RAM in their laptops or desktops, the less-technical early adopters of LLMs running locally are likely to be power users with lower-powered laptops, much more stringent RAM limits, and numerous line-of-business applications and browser tabs contending for that RAM. Causing those applications to be swapped onto disk will almost certainly result in a degraded overall experience that could easily be blamed on the LLM application itself.)