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What's the difference between frontier models and local models?

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6 months. (And sometimes a couple of quantization tweaks). It is wild how fast "state-of-the-art" becomes "running on a gaming PC."

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  1. 2026-09-07 16:25 · r/LocalLLM
    What's the difference between frontier models and local models?
  2. 2026-09-07 16:24 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    What's the difference between frontier models and local models?

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