• errer@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    I’m pretty skeptical local models can hold a candle to the cloud-based ones, particularly the ones Apple trains.

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      18 hours ago

      Most people don’t need deep agentic ai on their phones, they just need quick answers to questions, to add events to their calendars, answer emails, and remember things about their lives. These local llms actually perform better than the cloud ones for these tasks

    • eicker@lemmy.worldOP
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      21 hours ago

      Raw capability is only one metric: A local model probably will not beat the best cloud model any time soon, but it does not need to. If it handles 80 to 90% of everyday tasks instantly, privately and at near zero marginal cost, that is a huge win. Reserve the cloud for the genuinely hard requests, not every prompt.