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A local LLM is more convenient than cloud. But it is way less efficient. The cloud LLM processes multiple people's tasks at once because generating one token is mostly loading things into GPU memory, the compute required for inference is not that big. When doing multiple at once you can load one stage onto the GPU and then do that stage for a number of tokens for essentially the same cost.