My six-month bet: more hybrid AI deployments, not a wholesale move to local models

Overview

I expect more applications to use open-weight or self-hosted models over the next six months. But I doubt “everything moves local” is the likely outcome. Self-hosting has an obvious appeal when an application handles a large, predictable volume of routine work. You can control the deployment and reduce dependence on one API provider. The catch is that model weights being available doesn’t make operations free. Someone still pays for hardware, idle capacity, deployment, monitoring, and maintenanc

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