Reyes: Local open models will be the most cost-effective consumer solution in 1-3 years
Eno Reyes · Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive · Aug 29, 2026 · at 22:47
Eno Reyes, co-founder and CTO of Factory, explains why subsidized proprietary models will lose consumer share to local open-source models.
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“I think that probably the consumer will continue to follow the sort of like most cost effective solution. And so what does that look like in one, two, three years? I think it's open models. I think the most cost effective solution for a model is going to be the cheap one that you can run locally on your computer.”
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