Comment by davidw

18 days ago

$3000 might not be much to a wealthy software engineer in the US, but to, say, a college student in Portugal, it's a big expense.

Open source software democratized software in a huge way.

Ok, from that perspective we are still a few years from when a college student in Portugal can run local OSS models on their own hardware...but we aren't a few decades away from that, at least.