Subjective, but if we compare to compute not everyone needs the most expensive laptops or super computers for their work.
I think frontier models will be invaluable for scientific research, defense, financial analysis and such. But the average person probably would be reasonably well-served with a local model.
If you're in sales, customer service, product management and such - the leading open models at the 30B mark are already good enough.
I think frontier models will be invaluable for scientific research, defense, financial analysis and such. But the average person probably would be reasonably well-served with a local model.
If you're in sales, customer service, product management and such - the leading open models at the 30B mark are already good enough.