[v4dok]

Niche market?? You have no idea how big that market is!

[visarga]

Almost no serious user - private or company - wants to slurp their private data to cloud providers. Sometimes it is ethically or contractually impossible.

[michaelt]

The success of AWS and Gmail and Google docs and Azure and Github and Cloudflare make me think this... probably not an up-to-date opinion.

By and large, companies actually seem perfectly happy to hand pretty much all their private data over to cloud providers.

[b4ke]

yet they don't provide access to their children, there may be something in that.

[evantbyrne]

We can't use LLMs at work at all right now because of IP leakage, copyright, and regulatory concerns. Hosting locally would solve one of those issues for us.

[mepiethree]

Yeah I would venture to say it’s closer to “the majority of the market” than “niche”