8 Months ago + since last release are there any plans of new free local models or has Brighteon become like closed source online A.I only?
Mike talked in the past a lot about giving the power of local language models to the world and that he did not like the big tech who keep it closed source but for about 8 months + now Brighteon has not released any new versions of Enoch for local usage. Imagine that internet would be cut and we cannot access Enoch Online would it not be better to also focus a bit more on giving updated local versions of Enoch to the community just in case? Very sadly it often happens that people promise offline versions or open source versions of models but then get a taste of hosting it online and making people depending on their online platforms only.
As much as I've used locals, I can tell this much: they suck. Even if you have a top tier gaming rig, you still cannot afford an AI that 1. can use plugins to search and research the internet to provide a valid, unbiased answer, 2. is not designed to lie, 3. does follow your instructions without lying and taking shortcuts to bypass your requirements, 4. actually understands/remembers what you initially asked, 5. does not forcefully think that it's May 2024 and anything later is a "hallucination", 6. doesn't just loop endlessly by generating hundreds of variations of "reasons" to loop endlessly...
You'd need a special AI workstation for running a properly capable AI. That costs $$$$+$($) + power bill. And once the hardware expires, it's another $$$$+$($) investment time... Online Enoch, even the free tier, is really good comparing to local budget AI's. Never used the "reasoning" Enoch, I wonder if it can compete against Claude. If there's something Enoch cannot do, ask Claude - its new version got prohibited by the elite for a reason: it's a serious threat to the existence of the elite parasites. I wonder if the reasoning Enoch could be a super weapon too.
