I’m referring to CoPilot which for your average non technical user who doesn’t care whether something is local or not has the huge benefit of not requiring the purchase an expensive GPU.
Never underestimate people's interest in running something which lets them generate crass jokes about their friends or smutty conversation when hosted solutions like CoPilot could never allow such non-puritan morals. If this delivers on being the easiest way to run local models quickly then many people will be interested.