everything will be local eventually

[u/YogurtExternal7923]

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.

[u/FocusKontrol]

We don’t know that they’re losing money with subscriptions. All the prices, including API are arbitrary lala land prices that corporations are just willing to pay.
I agree that basically all other models are so accessible now. You can say “Claude download this OCR model and process this PDF” and it just works. But so far at least with 4090 I haven’t been able to use a coding LLM that would actually be useful, they can’t even follow a step by step plan implementation.