Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?

By AbstractH24 · 2026-06-22 · 3 points · 4 comments

Feels to me like local models are an under-covered aspect of this whole AI boom. If everything improves over time, at some point a good chunk of tasks won’t need to be done in data centers or be subject to the whims of a few frontier AI labs. How close are we to that? Or is my t…

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