[mapontosevenths]

Anthropic and Google already charge extra to use your own harness. That's 100% of the reason I'm using OpenAI.

If they go down that path I'll just go back to my old buddy Claude, or maybe buy a second Spark and keep it local.

[pshirshov]

Well, my backup plan is GLM. Cheap and not that bad really.

[canadiantim]

GLM feels a lot less cheap than the numbers say it is

[alansaber]

Google is really not distinguishing itself. Even the hosted inference sucks.

[embedding-shape]

At least the local models they put out are pretty good for their weight class. Could be worse, could be releasing the same amount of local models as Anthropic.

[brookst]

Google has the benefit of billions of devices in the wild that they control. Anthropic really doesn’t have distribution for local models, makes sense they’re not playing in that space.

[embedding-shape]

Sure, lots of differences. Point stands, they're distinguishing themselves in that way at least.

[brookst]

Oh sure, full agreement. In fact given how mid Gemini has been in cloud, this may turn out to be critical strategy to avoid losing cloud to Anthropic / OpenAI / DeepSeek / whoever, and local to Apple (doesn’t seem likely now, but that’s what BlackBerry, Creative, Intel said).