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I think by the time AI becomes efficient enough to be profitable, it's going to be efficient enough to run locally and the whole AI as a service business model is going to collapse. We're basically in the mainframe era of AI right now, and we've seen this happen with many technologies before. There's no reason to think this case will be different.
Just to give you an idea of how fast this stuff is moving. Qwen 3.6 was just released and can be run on a high end laptop, it outperforms Qwen 3.5 from February which required a commercial grade server to run. https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b
Yup. Already working on a suite of local pipeline apps and an orchestration platform for this. Happy to share if interested! Source
you should patent this!
And thereby lock it away from the underserved communities that need it most? Naw. Open source publishing is the way forward for a truly egalitarian system, which is what I'm aiming for
I was thinking of insulin.
The person who created it likewise refused to protect it from profit motives because he also felt that it belonged to humanity and it became captured to the detriment of humanity as a result.
Ah well the trouble is software patents can cost upwards of 5 figures, so yeah if I start making money I might do that, but it's definitely not within my capacity for now, thus public publishing for copyright establishment
Maybe you could crowdfund it!