Comment by fc417fc802

> Well why aren't we using them?

We are though? It just depends on the task and the costs.

> Do we really think we'd have a GNU moment for """open""" models? And are we willing to bet our industry on that?

Yes and yes. We're in the mainframe era. But history this time around is passing us by at a ridiculously fast clip. Local models become "good enough" for new tasks by the day, after which they continue to shrink for a given performance level.

I'm not going to bet against either moore's law or relentless increases in model efficiency any time soon.