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Very "why would anyone use Dropbox when I can setup a SFTP server" vibes.

Or even “why would I pay for a flight when I can simply walk across the country”

It’s all about the convenience, minimising the time and effort from “looks interesting” to “running the model”.

Nvidia don’t care if you do it on their cloud, someone else’s cloud, or on your own machine - they win either way, as it further propagates the technology on which they are building their future.

Torrents aren't that scary. If you have the patience for local AI you can figure out qBitTorrent in less than an hour.

Torrents are trivial. Each individual bit is trivial. But being able to click a button that says “run model” is even more trivial.

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