You know you can run LLMs on your own computer, right?

If you can afford a computer that can run LLMs, sure.

"afford" in this case has to be compared to the cost of renting.

Of course. Someone who pays 150$ a year for Claude Pro would need years to get to a 4k machine.

150$/month, for year...

I've seen businesses that made the infrastructure to share a 100k machine. They needed it "on premise", but the setup did not look too hard and the results were outstanding compared to Claude Opus.

> 150$/month, for year...

Claude Pro is 15$/month. Not everybody can afford 150$/month.

There's people running close to frontier model grade local AI on consumer and prosumer hardware, let's not act as if it was impossible to skip having to rent from OpenAI or Anthropic.

Have you seen hardware prices? They are so high that it's not even affordable for upper middle class in most of the world.