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Apple seems to still own the creative space. If those tools are able to run local models for any AI workflows suddenly anthropic/etc could lose a massive segment. Or at least demonstrate to others wanting a slice of the cloud AI profits it can be done.

I'm here for it. Local models can do a lot of what I need at almost no cost, plus the fun of making them work better or building a new system to handle that aspect of my home lab. A Strix Halo system may not be amazingly fast but at 128gb of RAM it can keep up with most open models worth exploring.

Based on June 1 Copilot Pro plan premium token burn and cost, unless you REALLY know how to use cloud AI efficiently and are tooled up to do so a local LLM on hardware you may already own is very appetizing.

I converted a lot of work today to a 6.5gb local LLM on a 12gb GPU and no, it's not as good. But it is 'free' or at least feels that way, especially when I need to redo something and my copilot premium request % doesn't change.