Comment by alganet
3 days ago
If plain open-source local models were able to do what Claude API does, Anthropic would be out of business.
Local models are a different thing than those cloud-based assistants and APIs.
3 days ago
If plain open-source local models were able to do what Claude API does, Anthropic would be out of business.
Local models are a different thing than those cloud-based assistants and APIs.
> If plain open-source local models were able to do what Claude API does, Anthropic would be out of business.
Not necessarily. Oracle has made billions selling a database that's less good than plain open-source ones, for example.
It wasn't originally less good. For at least 20 years it was much better.