99.9%+ of the tech worker population will never be able to build their own servers to run future frontier models. Kimi 3 is an indication of what's coming. These models will keep getting drastically larger. The hardware isn't getting cheaper anytime soon (no matter what China does; that goes for memory and GPUs).
Cycle forward to Fable 7, Kimi 5, GPT 7 a couple years out. Forget about it unless you own a datacenter.
> 99.9%+ of the tech worker population will never be able to build their own servers to run future frontier models.
A single local user can run frontier models slowly on a 24/7 basis, which drops hardware requirements by orders of magnitude compared to a datacenter setup for just-in-time inference. This is not a real alternative to subsidized subscriptions at present, but it's a great insurance policy against future VC-driven rug pulls.
90% of the tech worker population does not work for themselves they work for someone that pays them 1000s in salary for those paying those tech worker spending $40-50k on a server that helps them not pay for 2-3 tech workers is not that big a deal.
Cycle forward to Fable 7, Kimi 5, GPT 7 a couple years out. Forget about it unless you own a datacenter.