[HSO]

By the time this „golden“ ad free time is over in 1-2 years you should be able to run your own custom model locally

[dataexec]

I hope so but we could also be staying in an eternal state of FOMO as the proprietary models keep getting marginally (or a lot) better.

[the_other]

How are they better if they spam the user with ads?

[mcny]

One possibility is that if they can manage to lower interest rates back to zero ish, we might see a hiring frenzy in machine learning/llm/genai, starving upstarts and free software of talent, slowing progress in custom local models? Or is this too pessimistic/ "out there" of a take that requires the stars to align just right?

[delfinom]

Interest rates at zero and there won't be any clients for these upstarts as people will be in bread lines from their worthless money.

[bloomca]

Some models will still trickle down; hell, better/cheaper hardware should enable to run hefty models available today, and they seem to be already okay-ish with such queries.