[shiandow]

Really? Hoe many people do you know who use big neural networks, how many of them run it on their own hardware?

[int_19h]

For image generation, the bar is much lower than for text. E.g. FLUX.1-dev is 12B parameters. Running those on local hardware is extremely common and very easy, especially with apps like Draw Things (the latter can even run on iPhones and iPads!).