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Consumer-grade GPUs can usually only run quantized local models of 7B–32B, whereas cloud APIs are often backed by dense or MoE models with hundreds of billions of parameters, and the gap is obvious in instruction following, long context and tool-calling stability.
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10/18/2026
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Valid until: 1/16/2027
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