Does anyone with 100 AI agents running simultaneously and $10k cursor bill actually ship?

At that point does it make sense to just invest in a local AI setup?

Good question

Do open source models compete with sota right now?

You can use Deepseek, Qwen, llama, via ollama locally. Or buy a beefy Mac mini/studio. I haven’t found it to be fast enough with what I have but it’s good to use OpenAI compatible things

Applied AI, databases, data, vibe coding (sic.), open source, community/devrel, remote. 

itinerant businessperson. globalist.

Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Even if it were fast enough is it any good compared to the frontier rn?

Nope. Llama is let’s just say not too impressive. Qwen is underrated. I haven’t tried the new Deepseek and I can’t comment on what mistral has given recently either. 

It’s pretty hard to beat Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT frankly. This is “correct” as of today - this can change later of course.

I also think that people are super afraid to utilize Chinese models despite being open (and local). Bit of a shame.