> And those fruits haven't changed or improved noticeably in decades.
Strongly recommend you get Gemma 4 12B QAT on a computer that can run it, and then disconnect the internet and see what it can still do. Even the smaller E4B will show you.
Local AI is the first thing in decades (since editing video, perhaps) that meaningfully changes what a disconnected machine is capable of.
Yes, but system requirements bloated to this extreme point long before there was any AI at all.