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Are we about to see the end of the $20 monthly AI subscription? I just read a great article exploring why the future of AI might be moving away from giant data centers and right onto our local workstations. - Open source models are catching up to big names like OpenAI and Anthropic in as little as 4 months. - The gap in performance between paid frontier models and free open weight models shrank from over 8% to just 1.7% in a single year. - Running models locally is becoming a reality as the latest MacBook Pro M5 Max can handle models with up to 134.9 billion parameters. - Big providers are facing massive losses with OpenAI projecting a 14 billion dollar loss for 2026 which could lead to much higher subscription prices for us. - Small specialized models can achieve GPT 4o level performance at only 2% of the cost when fine tuned for specific tasks. - Local AI gives us total privacy and eliminates those annoying rate limits that slow down our automation workflows. Read more: https://tombedor.dev/open-source-models/

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