Have you ever seriously tried local AI?

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Summary

The author argues that local AI is underestimated due to usability barriers, and introduces their project Euler to make local AI as seamless as cloud AI with privacy and ownership advantages.

I genuinely feel like local AI is being massively underestimated right now. Not because the models are bad anymore, but because the experience around them is still too technical for most people. Cloud AI dominates mostly because it’s simple: you open an app and it just works. But local AI already has huge advantages in privacy, ownership and long-term cost, and hardware keeps getting better every year. That’s why I honestly think the future is hybrid AI: local by default, cloud only when needed. So I started building a project called Euler around this idea. The goal is to make local AI feel as seamless as using ChatGPT — your own AI node running at home, accessible from any device, with optional cloud fallback when you need more power. Still early, but I really think local AI is missing its “ChatGPT moment” in terms of usability. What do you think about something like this?
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