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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by nunez on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:49PM (#47444041)
Open-source models will never be _truly_ competitive as long as obtaining quality datasets and training on them remains prohibitively expensive.

Plus, most users don't want to host their own models. Most users don't care that OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have a monopoly on LLMs. ChatGPT is a household name, and most of the big businesses are forcing Copilot and/or Claude onto their employees for "real work."

This is "everyone will have an email server/web server/Diaspora node/lemmy instance/Mastodon server" all over again.

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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by heavyset_go on Thursday March 19, 2026 @09:35PM (#47449254)
Local models are more like browsers than servers. The user doesn't care where they're hosted, they click an icon and ask questions either way.
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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by fragmede on Friday March 20, 2026 @02:37AM (#47451227)
People do care about the privacy of these things though. It's one thing to talk about encryption, but users are pouring out their heart and soul to these things, and they're not all idiots.
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