Here's my bold prediction for 2027: all the big AI labs will stop selling you only cloud access. They'll sell you a model that runs on your machine too. Local for the everyday stuff, cloud for the heavy lifting. An hybrid model with one bill. Two reasons why I think this could happen : 1/Open source model got good and the gap between what you can run yourself and what you rent from a frontier lab keeps shrinking. Once "enough" is free and private, paying per token to send your data to someone else's server starts to feel like a weird default. 2/The hardware under our desks and in our pockets keeps getting better at exactly this. Unified memory, capable neural accelerators, laptops that can hold a real model in RAM without breaking a sweat. What's exciting here (apart from hopefully a lower AI bill) : if most requests stop hitting the cloud, we stop needing to build data centers like the planet has infinite power and water.