[d-z-m]

> I've yet to see _any_ OSS model that I can run on my machine being as good as ChatGPT 3 (not 3.5, not 4, but the original one from when everyone went crazy).

It depends on your machine I guess, but IMO there's definitely OSS models out there that rival the original ChatGPT offering for certain use cases(dolphin mixtral comes to mind). Having a model with RAG capability is going to make a huge difference in the quality of the answer, as well.