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.


Since you posted this last, Google did the dirty and U2’ed Gemini into chrome without user’s permission.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/chrome-is-quietly-downloading-4gb-ai-model-without-your-permission
So, “positioning and walled garden” rather than “for the good of all man kind” seems to be the play here. ICBW and YMMV.
Yep, the usual google shit. Wasn’t expecting it to happen that fast though.
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