[spondyl]

> isn't this antithetical to the spirit of obsidian?

I think so, yeah. Kepano (CEO of Obsidian, the company) has stated that they're waiting for the technology to progress to where models can be run locally.

Anything goes with third party plugins of course

EDIT: Jumping to timestamp 50:08 is a good summarisation of their thoughts from the man himself: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TkNTuFF2t-c

[technovangelist]

But I think we are there for most tasks. I thought a bit about this today and wrote a blog post about how to use a local ai tool, Ollama, to summarize, make links, and ask questions about my notes. It’s not a fully fleshed out plugin but shows the start in about 20 or so lines of typescript.

Check out the post here https://ollama.ai/blog/llms-in-obsidian

and a companion video here: https://youtu.be/ubXNPHpYREE