[panstromek]

It sure seems like that to me. I was pretty impressed by how easily I could run small Gemma on 7 year old laptop and get a decent chat experience.

I can imagine that doing some clever offloading to a normal programs and using the LLM as a sort of "fuzzy glue" for the rest could improve the efficiency on many common tasks.

[coolcase]

Big tech ain't investing heavily so you can run local, what data does that leave them to sell, and what power and control does that give them. Zilch.

[panstromek]

I mean.. cute conspiracy but it doesn't correspond with reality. Just look what's Google releasing, they are trying to make these things fit on consumer hardware.