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iknowstuff | on: Apple has new Mac app coming to make running local AI models easy
This is a nerd fever dream. Yeah I’m sure people can’t wait to run local models on their iPhones.
mbgerring | parent | next
Sometime I wonder if other people on this website lived through the same era of web applications as I did, where people built whole successful businesses on 3rd party APIs, that were destroyed overnight when the terms changed.

Yes, I promise you, there are many, many people who are hesitant to build anything real on the assumption that either Anthropic or OpenAI will continue maintaining their services as they are today in perpetuity.

jmuguy | parent | next
For those of using AI day to day, not being beholden to the whims of Anthropic and OpenAI is definitely a dream scenario.
rapsey | root | parent | next
You are just confirming his point.
asdff | root | parent
iOS isn't exactly a distro you control either
bix6 | parent | next
Is Apple Intelligence not local models currently running on iPhones?
walthamstow | root | parent | next
It's only running if people are using it
Gigachad | root | parent
Some of it is local and some is hosted.
gherkinnn | parent
You don't have to sell it as a local model. Sell it as offline capabilities. Sell it as private background processing while your phone is idle and plugged in. Sell it as un-enshittified LLM once Anthropic and OpenAI inevitably screw everybody.