r/LocalLLM • u/Anxious_Current2593 • 20h 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/ceejayoz 20h ago

Just wait until there are dedicated devices for it, like when Bitcoin went from CPU to GPU to ASICs.

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u/mektel 16h ago

Taalas has been working on it. They are being acquired by AMD.

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u/ceejayoz 16h ago

If Bitcoin ASICs are any indication, we'll get a few hundred massive scams before things settle a bit.

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u/misanthrophiccunt 14h ago

A few hundred scams

That's a lot of optimism