Use deepseek if you don't want the u.s. government monitoring you.
Feel like they would still be great for a lot of applications like "Search my local hard drive for the file that matches this description"
When I followed up with how to save chat information for future use in the LLM's context window, I was given a rather lengthy process involving setting up an SQL database, writing some Python tp create a "pre-prompt injection wrapper"....
That's cool and all, but wishing there was something a little more "out of the box" that did this sort of thing for the "rest of us". GPT did mention Tome, LM Studio, a few others....
I did play with MCP and ollama a little, but that was scripted, not interactive.
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