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I've been looking into local models lately, mostly out of vague paranoia that I should get one up and running before it becomes defacto illegal for normal people to own due to some kind of regulatory capture. Seems fairly doable at the moment though not particularly user friendly.
They're OK. It's kinda amazing how much lossy data can be compressed into a 12GB model. They don't really start to get comparable to the large frontier models until 70B+ parameters, and you would need serious hardware to run those.
Oh I mean with setup, like I can download ollama and a basic model fine enough and get a generic chat bot. But if I want something that can scan through PDFs with direct citation (like the Nvidia LLM) or play a character then suddenly its all git repositiories and cringey youtube tutorials.
That would be nice. I don't know how to do that other than programming it yourself with something like langgraph.