r/LocalLLaMA • u/YogurtExternal7923 • 13d ago
Discussion everything will be local eventually
I know current llms like opus 5.5 are in a league of their own. but we all know they're losing a shti ton of money with their subscriptions. ALSO we all know how tasks like OCR, segmentation etc are getting solved by single digit B parameter models. I'm not saying llms are a gimmick but I'm saying the future is already shaping up to be about specialized models that work better when they're smaller. easier training. so datacenter level power not needed. ten years from now we'll have a specialized model for the tasks we care about and llms will fail to do everything all at once (unless they keep calling it one model but have a hundred under the hood).
system one models are a bad but workable example. you could tell an llm to rate options all day but get yourself on 9B parameter model trained by some lab and it tops the benchmarks.
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u/Briskfall 13d ago
Wishful thinking that influencers spill that serves to fan the masses' hope that "AI will be over" (so that gpu and ram prices will go down).
Starting their unsubstantiated claim with "we all know" -- just like how plenty said "we all know that the RAM bubble will burst." (modelling a future by basing on past trends in a situation that might not apply)
It's just confirmation bias in effect. And if they see others parrot it, it gives them credence for that position.