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The author believes open weights are crucial to FollowUp Local, for reasons including: chat records contain customer privacy and local running keeps data from leaving the computer; local inference has zero marginal cost, making a one-time purchase model feasible; the 1B or 4B model can be freely chosen and fine-tuned on industry data; and even if the author stops maintaining it, the tool and model can still keep running on the user's machine.
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