[wlesieutre]

But if you're running it on your own hardware you might only generate tokens when you have something useful to do with them, instead of every time you load a Google search results page because Google decided the future is stuffing Gemini-generated answers down your eyeballs instead of letting you read it yourself from the primary source for 0.1 watts.

[srdjanr]

Whether I'm using Google or not is completely unrelated to whether I use OpenAI (for example) API or run LLM locally

[stavros]

Don't worry, capitalism takes care of that.