Dunno, if in this day and age you are making inference more expensive, more scarce, you are honestly moving in the wrong direction and DeepSeek and others will gladly take your lunch.
The hardware to run deepseek is still incredibly expensive.
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Have you seen the news about qwen3.6? People are running it on sub 1000 euro hardware. Apparently it's about as good as Claude sonnet.