[JumpCrisscross]

> If more people could tinker with local models and see what they can do, I think there would be far less belief that only the big two/three hold the keys to the kingdom and far more that the future is a bit more distributed

Eh, I've played with them. They take way more babysitting to do the work reliably, and I have to much-more closely monitor the outputs for hallucinations.

They'll get there. But it might take a decade or so for (a) consumer hardware and (b) SOTA distilled open-source models to converge with the closed-source stuff, and that's enough time for both a slow deflation and plenty of profits to be made.