Comment by aviflombaum

I just watched a $3,000 laptop beat OpenAI’s best model at something that actually matters. Not at generating poetry or philosophical musings. Planning a real trip to Ecuador that you could book today without embarrassing yourself or blowing your budget. This wasn’t supposed to happen. TL;DR: OpenAI charges you $20/month to use GPT-5. I ran it against free models on my laptop. The laptop models didn’t just compete. They won at the stuff that actually matters. Your laptop doesn’t have shareholders. It has you.