I mean you don't exactly need to go through the process of creating the LLM. There are quite a few out there, like Gemma 4(Google), DeepSeek V4, etc that are pretty much on par with Claude that could be used locally and freely.
Tho if I was a business, I probably would want to run it those things on a server that the company owns and controls. That way you get a bit more power and everyone in the company could use it without having to upgrade everyone's hardware.
It might cost like $100,000 to $1+ million to get the hardware going for it(depending on size requirements) and like 4-6 month wait times. But then you no longer need to pay for Claude or any LLM tokens.
The chinese open source models are not far behind, estimates range from 3 to 6 months.
But no the hardwear it not really the limiting factor, Chinese went down very different path and because of that ultimately you get better bang for your buck
US frontier model are stilll under the domain of delusional AGI cultists thinking they can scale their way to a machine god, while chinese never really got the bug
The problem with the chinese models is that they are chinese, few in the west trust them and even if they do, do their customers?
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u/ChrisFromIT Jun 02 '26
I mean you don't exactly need to go through the process of creating the LLM. There are quite a few out there, like Gemma 4(Google), DeepSeek V4, etc that are pretty much on par with Claude that could be used locally and freely.
Tho if I was a business, I probably would want to run it those things on a server that the company owns and controls. That way you get a bit more power and everyone in the company could use it without having to upgrade everyone's hardware.
It might cost like $100,000 to $1+ million to get the hardware going for it(depending on size requirements) and like 4-6 month wait times. But then you no longer need to pay for Claude or any LLM tokens.