The Breakdown

  • Fully downloadable, locally runnable
  • No subscription tax or cloud leash
  • Hackable and modifiable by design
  • Meta safety tuning still baked in
  • LLM core = stochastic parrot risks

Side Effects

local inference, global copium, ancestors mildly impressed

Buy Instead

Skip the cloud APIs. Run with Ollama or LM Studio — same weights, zero vendor lock-in.