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origini • yesterday at 7:55 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

The people saying that local models can easily replace the real Frontier Models from Anthropic or OpenAI are just not using it for the same things you and I do.

They seem to be happy with their small usages.

For everything I do, i see huge differences in Quality and Speed.

Even when I try an open model on a 4090, the PC gets warm/hot very fast, I struggle with context length.


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KellyCriterion • yesterday at 11:40 PM

This:

Having currently a very tech-intensive chat running for more than one week, this is where the frontier models really shine: Its no more 2024 or so, where they lost context on large discussions, you can do really great work with the frontier models - the local models will be a thing in a few years, if RAM & CPU developed further, this will happen: in 2035 like, you will be able to run "Claude-like experience" on your iPhone.

NoDodgeQuestion • yesterday at 8:44 PM

can you give example, prompt require context window > local model, or higher Quality/Speed, that local model can not do, open source example?

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dofm • yesterday at 8:05 PM

> The people saying that local models can easily replace the real Frontier Models from Anthropic or OpenAI are just not using it for the same things you and I do.

> They seem to be happy with their small usages.

Oh yes, we're terribly inferior people. Just living on scraps from the masters' tables.

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