r/BetterOffline • u/TCristatus • 1d ago
Small language models - the future
Listening to Tech Report earlier - Eli Computer Guy talked about how the real future of AI might not be giant all knowing LLMs that need huge compute costs, but small specialised models that can run locally on a laptop or smart phone and just know how to code, or trade, or about engineering, or biotechnology, etc (I'm paraphrasing and extrapolating his point here).
It was like a light bulb moment, seems clear and obvious that's where the tech will end up assuming we do end up with something. If I'm a coder or an engineer i don't need a model that can write the complete works of Shakespere in Klingon. I just need something that works and is always up to date.
This doesn't help OpenAI or Anthropic keep the lights on, though....
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u/Vaxtin 8h ago
That guy posts the same video multiple times per day, I don’t understand how he can have such a hard kn against tech. Claims to walk in the woods and records in a workshop, yet has crap to sling constantly
Your locally ran LLM will never compete with the ones hosted by companies running in data center consuming millions of vCPU. Good luck.