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.