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pretty unconvinced. when desktop gaming started you didn't have low latency high bandwidth reliable internet. if you did, you probably wouldn't have people buying cards at all and instead GeForce Now would have been the whole market.

we're already at that stage now with AI / LLMs. this type of physical product will remain niche.

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Not everyone has low latency high bandwidth reliable internet, and almost no one has it all the time. In addition, the privacy and security benefits from running things locally is a requirement for some.

The people I know that use local AI instead of remote AI like the privacy, response time, and not being charged per-query.

Absolutely. My pathetically small local LLM is in some ways vastly superior to cloud-based models that are orders of magnitude larger. Not in ability, but in how I can use it.

we do now but Stadia failed to have a meaningful impact for a reason

obviously companies will try to migrate everything to the SaaS model because it is better for revenue and bug fixes but not necessarily the best user experience

don't want games to stop if I dont't have wifi and i don't want ML stuff to require internet or feel comfortable sending my entire digital data to a third party or have models be updated because of some compliance policy

but it's still in the infancy companies will do everything to make it over the network one or two nice tech people will try to make it local/hybrid hopefully they succeed

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