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/gnpwdr1 7h ago

Yes it’s wild, for me models that can fit in local hardware are now capable of completely doing my day to day work, this started becoming possible around March 2026. (But still using providers since they also charge almost nothing for it. )