We’ve already seen AI transform software development, and other industries are rapidly following suit. There is no doubt that AI demand will be unprecedented. It won't be long before the mainstream catches on to what we local AI enthusiasts are building on consumer hardware. At our current trajectory, running today's frontier-level capabilities locally on 32GB of VRAM is right around the corner, likely much sooner than any of us anticipated. Once that happens, the shift will be swift: Apple will market Macs as subscription-free Claude replacements. Businesses will buy dedicated Nvidia server hardware to power their internal tools and dev teams on-premise (if they aren't already). While cloud AI will always exist for the average consumer, the demand won't justify the multi-trillion-dollar data center hype currently being built out. Watching these AI IPOs play out will be wild. Google might be the only tech giant in the AI race to survive the shift cleanly. Anchored by their dominance in search market share, their commitment to open-weight models serves as a brilliant strategic hedge against Chinese open-weight models dominating the local scene. Gemma5 better not disappoint.   submitted by   /u/unchikuso [link]   [comments]