The Future of Local AI: Cloud or Self-Hosted?

Reddit user forevergeeks posts on r/LocalLLaMA asking about the trajectory of AI deployment: whether it will follow desktops and servers in being mostly self-hosted, shift to the cloud like computing did, or leave a significant market share self-hosting AI for specific reasons.

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