Comment by Arainach

>Yeah, but we can self-host them

Who is "we", and what are the actual capabilities of the self-hosted models? Do they do the things that people want/are willing to pay money for? Can they integrate with my documents in O365/Google Drive or my calendar/email in hosted platforms? Can most users without a CS degree and a decade of Linux experience actually get them installed or interact with them? Are they integratable with the tools they use?

Statistically close to "everyone" cannot run great models locally. GPUs are expensive and niche, especially with large amounts of VRAM.