News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "free" and ad-supported. Parent comment

Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by Muhammad523 on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:23AM (#47206959)
If you run the models locally, you can avoid ads. There are some apps out there on githup that allow to run ai models on android phones.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by nickk81 on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:32AM (#47207056)
imho, the hosted solution will always be better, the major players will offer better integrated chat, and they'll have budgets to do so, as long as advertising income is available
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by api on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:33AM (#47207069)
Sure. But then you are paying via hardware. Good models require a beefy machine.

Wouldn’t be surprised to see paid downloadable models in the future either.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's "... by 0_____0 on Sunday March 01, 2026 @09:44AM (#47207167)
Yeah, I think we get spoiled by the big name models. I have tried running models that fit in RAM on my machine, and aside from being very slow, they're just a bit... brain damaged
[ Parent | on HN ]