I’m kind of new to local AI and wondering what’s the move here? Are they trying to pull off a chrome/android situation? Obviously I don’t trust any of these gafam giants but I would be really interested in running a local LLM on my M1 max (briefly used deepseek last year). My use case would be mostly chat functions to help with academic and text analysis tasks (don’t worry I don’t just blindly trust LLMs, I know what I’m doing), so recommendations are welcome.
Personally, I don’t think they have any kind of grand plan beyond capturing as much of the market as they can. They’ll keep using the strategies that have been effective, but I doubt they can predict what the market will do, or what ground-breaking discoveries are coming. “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”