Cloud AI

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Lessin: AI Compute Has Zero Vendor Lock-In for Developers
“And like the reality is the fact that I can just sit there and in three commands while I'm doing other stuff, do that is mind blowing, but it means there's no lock in on anything. I'm just going to sit there and price and quality optimize. Right. Like there's …”
Sam Lessin Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 38:59 OpenAI's $852 Billion Valuation Makes Zero Sense (ClawCon Tokyo, Anthropic's Leak, Goodbye Internet)
Steinberger: Local AI agents are dramatically more capable than cloud AI
“I think my big difference is that it actually runs on your computer. Like everything I saw so far runs in the cloud. It's like, it can do a few things. If you run it on your computer, it can do every effing thing, right? So that's really more powerful.”
Peter Steinberger Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 1:37 OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
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Appenzeller: AI compute will bifurcate between local and cloud tasks
“There's probably going to be a little bit bifurcation there on quality and parameters, right? You can run things locally but you can probably run them a lot better in the cloud, right? Because you have a much bigger server there. So it probably depends on what…”
Guido Appenzeller Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 19:42 Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs

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