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Because a lot of the AI hype/use is driven by companies who just want to pay money for a service? Besides, my laptop would need a pretty big RAM upgrade.

I agree local is better, but the big companies are making decent products and companies are willing to to pay for that. They’re not willing to spend engineering money to make local setups better.

If there's a model that's as good as Claude 4.5 (not even 4.6) I would pay tens of thousands to run it locally. To my knowledge there isn't yet. Benchmarks may say so but I haven't used one that does yet. I always try new models that come out on openrouter

Local AI is what people want/need, but centralized AI is where the investors' money is flowing, because a walled garden has always been easier to turn into a cash printer.