[khurs]

>In the long run I truly believe local AI will win

What do you mean by 'win'?

For a normal coder/person's use cases, yes. But AI companies are becoming more specialised in different fields and these tailored models will be leagues ahead in those niches.

[romanovcode]

The way I see it - Opus 4.8 xhigh can do any programming task with a programmer instructing it. If Apple releases local model together with a device that can run said model it would render OpenAI/Anthropic useless for vast majority of usecases.

And if a local mcahine can run something like Opus 4.8, who is to say that those "specialized" models would just not come at a later date, or even loading open models wouldn't be an option with something like M7-verified flag from huggingface that would make it extremely easy for any consumer to just play around.

[khurs]

But most private buyer and most business buyers don't get anything more than base models.

As of yet no indication that small models that can fit in 8gb/16gb can be fully relied upon?