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Local open models as endgame

April 4, 2026clem, Beff – e/acc, James Camp ,

clem and Beff argue the future is running capable open models locally for cost, speed, and privacy, framing owned hardware inference as the long-term destination.

this is Gemma 4 running locally on a 3 year old mac
free (=$0 no matter how much you use)
The endgame is local open models on hardware you own.
People are waking up.
llama-server -hf ggml-org/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-GGUF:Q4_K_M
openclaw onboard --non-interactive \
--custom-base-url "http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1"
--custom-model-id "ggml-org-gemma-4-26b-a4b-gguf"
We are 3 months out from local models doing everything that people use openclaw for anyway
clem
Beff – e/acc
James Camp ,
open-modelslocal-firstprivacyopenclawapiopen source

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