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		AstroBen on April 28, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reality Check I think it'll mostly still be centralized around providers I don't see good local models happening on mobile devices anytime soon, and the majority of desktop users will use whatever is the best + most convenient. Competitive open source models running on your average laptop? Seems unlikely

janalsncm on April 28, 2025 [–]

Doesn’t seem that unlikely to me. Ollama on Mac can already run decent DeepSeek/Llama distillations. For a lot of tasks it’s already good enough.

And 2029 is in 4 years. Four years ago leetcode benchmarks still meant something and OpenAI was telling us GPT3 was too dangerous to release.

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