I think we can start to see the outlines of this happening with LLMs as well. Local models have gone from being proofs of concept to something that is at least remotely comparable to contemporary models, and the gap there is closing faster than SOTA models are pushing it forward. Local models still suffer from high hardware requirements, but so did early image gen models where typical consumer hardware was insufficient for efficiently running them.
Ok, I completely missed that one. Can you point me in the right direction?
[1] - https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus
The US government thinks they can dictate who can access "Mythos-level" (whatever that is) LLMs. But what will happen when this can be run on consumer hardware?
I guess this will be yet another vector too attack open computing and the idea that people can a) own computers, and b) choose what software they run on their own computers
By the same measure, NVDA is Cisco, providing the backbone and capturing a ton of the early benefits, but soon becomes furniture while the excitement moves further up the chain.