Are they? I don't believe there's that big of a market for local AI. Most people don't care that much, and you'll most likely lose the advertising revenue.
>I don't believe there's that big of a market for local AI. Most people don't care that much,
I agree that the market for local AI is basically limited to nerds at this point, but that's because nobody's really explained why local AI is a good thing and also because the vast majority of people need the $20 paid plan at most. How much time and money would it take to get something half as good as OpenAIs products running locally?
It will take another [human] generation before AI is well integrated into everyone's daily lives where people will expect a local model handling things for them. I don't think the killer app has arrived yet (OC is a hint of what is to come).
I agree that the vast majority of punters don't care about "local AI".
However, if you can deliver 90% of the value of AI for 90% less cost, that is a really big incentive. Companies will spring up to fill that kind of gap.
Nobody can undercut the big AI players right now because they are all over-funded by VC money. Once the frontier companies try to match cost to expense, suddenly they become very, very vulnerable.
I agree that the market for local AI is basically limited to nerds at this point, but that's because nobody's really explained why local AI is a good thing and also because the vast majority of people need the $20 paid plan at most. How much time and money would it take to get something half as good as OpenAIs products running locally?