[richardwhiuk]

There's no economic reason why running a model locally should be better than using a cloud hosted version.

[moregrist]

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, in 1977

[mcmoor]

In hindsight this is getting truer, what with the push of dumb terminal for everyone

[mikegioia]

Everyone has at least one in their pocket right now though.

[spockz]

Sure there is. Keeping your IP in house.

[RevEng]

You pay a 3x markup to rent a server through AWS than managing your own. You pay for convenience. At shall annals that's fine, but for large companies with their own datacenters, you generally do things in house.