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Wouldn't it be due to price? Quality LLMs are expensive, so the real question is can you make a product cheap enough to still have margins and a useful enough LLM that people would buy?

You can kind of get there with home assistant. I'm not sure if it can use tools yet, but you can expose stuff you'd ask about like the weather/etc.

I have both and the one offered is really weak. If you pay you can use Gemini but it doesn’t have agentic access to smart home controls meaning you can no longer ask it to turn on or off the lights

> locally run LLM

You mean like Ollama + llamacpp ?

Yeah but packaged into a singular smart speaker product.

We know there’s a market out there for Alexa and Google home. So this would be the next generation of that. It’s the nobrainer next step.