Post #2231591
2026-03-08 14:13 UTC
@jani@floss.social @leeg@fosstodon.org But that qwen3-coder-next model is more free (as in libre) than that VC++ license ever was. Runs locally on my machine. Never requires new hardware.
So present, affordable hardware (minus DRAM...) can already run free, capable AI. It will get better still. And newer (free) models might require beefier hardware, but how is that different from free software?
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@jani@floss.social 2026-03-08 14:27
@RandySimons@mastodon.social @leeg@fosstodon.org I think we have a difference of opinion on how useful the local models that run on inexpensive hardware are, and how the evolution of language models require beefier hardware faster than any other field in software development. Maybe that will change in the future, and hardware evolution catches up again. Other than that, I completely agree using a local model avoids the lock-in and rent on LLM subscriptions. That is the model I would personally prefer as well.