I mean seriously, just try ollama with lfm2 on a macbook with the current NPU.. Why the fuck would I pay these clowns to run that process elsewhere? Why would I pay for model access when they've plateaued and open/free models are everywhere?

Yup free models are gonna be the death of these clowns

That’s part of why DeepSeek is so worrying to these American companies. It’s much more efficient and doesn’t rely on Nvidia cards, so American companies see it as a massive needle inching towards the over-inflated bubble.