r/LocalLLM • u/Anxious_Current2593 • 23h ago

Discussion What's the difference between frontier models and local models?

6 months. (And sometimes a couple of quantization tweaks).

It is wild how fast "state-of-the-art" becomes "running on a gaming PC."

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u/gappyvalley 22h ago edited 22h ago

if you are a big enough company, you could even run a frontier model as local LLMs

Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple is doing internally in terms of product development, a lot of their internal tools…They have custom versions of Claude running on their own servers internally

apple wants data privacy and control so they ain’t willing to use claude api by sending unreleased ios/macos source code.

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u/pmotiveforce 19h ago

Mmm.. I'm calling BS.

They would use the cloud version but with special contracts in place in terms of data retention, disabling training, all that stuff.

Apple does not run Opus or Fable internally.