Comment by philwelch

What incentive do any of the big LLM providers have to solve this problem? I know there are technical reasons, but SaaS is a lucrative and proven business model and the systems have for years all been built by companies with an incentive to keep that model running, which means taking any possible chance to trade off against the possibility of some paying customer ever actually being able to run the software on their own computer. Just like the phone company used to never let you buy a telephone (you had to rent it from the phone company, which is why all the classic Western Electric telephones were indestructible chunks of steel).