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The appeal of running large models locally is that data never leaves the machine, it can be used offline, there is no pay-per-use billing, and it can be freely fine-tuned; the cost is that only models with smaller parameter counts or 4-bit quantized models can be run, and both inference speed and context length are limited.
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