I kinda got lost in making that list (just aspergers things) and listed every model i knew.

For a layperson, yeah self hosting isn’t as effective yet. But if someone who studies AI (like me), self hosting is a must. Some use cases are:

Retrain on your own data (big market potential)

Make your own bots with specific applications/use cases (like parse wikipedia before answering)

Bypass censorship (funny story, my friend asked claude to summarize a book on dystopia and it kept telling her to talk about something else cuz dystopia’s were too depressing for claude)

I’ve even heard about models that are specialized for just one task like chatting, or logic puzzles

And lastly, privacy nerds like me