What happens to local LLM if/when LLMs are no longer released for free?
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I’m thinking about where this might wind up in 3-5+ years. As others have noted there’s no guarantee that Qwen, Google, and others will continue to release models in the future. Suppose the supply of new LLM models dries up overnight. Whatever is available today, May 2026, is all that we ever get. What then? Of