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I would look outside of what's happening in LLM / AI to see what things have looked like historically for other technologies. Right now, anything in the AI field is early adopters and not evidence for what will happen when mass adoption happens.

Search, browser, social media, email, laptops, phones, cloud providers, word processors, business office suites... brand name vs open source... it's a telling story

I'm not against people using local models, but from personal experience, I have a hard time seeing the average consumer choosing this route. People avoid the hassle of self management/hosting