>Local models at that scale just aren’t comparable to the frontier.

Don't have to be. They just have to be good enough for the tasks you need.

Local models are useable and practical today. There is very clear diminishing returns from just increasing model size. You say you are a 'deepseek glazer' but the anthropic/openai glazers were saying the local models we have now were literally impossible just a year ago... and it seems the propaganda is still flowing