Some AI jobs belong on your own machine and some belong in the cloud, and the wrong call costs you either your privacy or a good answer. This week: a three-question sort, what each side is bad at, and a setup that makes switching take seconds.
NVIDIA ships an open 74-billion-parameter model and the laptops to run it, Sam Altman and Bernie Sanders fight over open weights, Meta goes closed, and memory prices keep the bill climbing.
Token prices keep falling and AI bills keep rising, and most of that money lands with two vendors. The fix isn't to spend less on AI. It's to stop renting all of it.
