please point me to an open model, that matches astra even on low reasoning, and runs on a mac
No problem, but you'll need to wait a few months
Why would it need to match Astra?
Software companies don't give up and fold because they can't hire one of the five best engineers in the world.
What kind of nonsense argument is this
The audience for this sort of thing is currently quite limited. It may grow more in the future, especially if prices get out of control, but for now, it's a relatively small subset of people.
Sorry but this is a pretty delusional take. No, you cant run the same level or even close to that level of model on a mac, not even on a 512gb studio. You can run good models sure, but not models anywhere close to the capabilities of these ones yet, despite what idiots on Twitter keep spouting.
The "run locally" thing is a red herring. The fact that anyone can be an inference providers and offer them as a service is what we need to focus on. If they are "good enough" then market forces will stop Anthropic/OpenAI from charging monopoly rents.