Where it's going
The rise of
local AI
Running models on hardware
you control
: your phone, your laptop, or your company's own servers.
~10,000×
cheaper per token: electricity on your own GPU vs a frontier API
52M
monthly downloads of Ollama, the most popular local-AI runtime
93%
of surveyed enterprises repatriating AI workloads from public cloud or evaluating it
Cost:
once you own the hardware, you're mostly just paying for electricity. Use it as much as you want.
Privacy & sovereignty:
your data never leaves your device. No lab can train on your trade secrets.
It works offline,
and small open models today match what needed GPT-4-class cloud APIs just two years ago.