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The sort of task you don't expect to end immediately. If extracting data from a bunch of PDFs takes 1 hour or the whole night, that doesn't make much difference to me. It's not fast enough for auto completion and slightly too slow for chat (but bearable IMO).


Running a local llm at 10 t/s overnight to extract data from a few PDFs will burn more in electricity than paying cents for the hosted kimi models.

You can (sometimes) break even if you have a workstation GPU.


Sometimes data privacy is paramount.




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