Ep 865: Open Source AI 101: Why Local Models, Cheap APIs, and AI Agents Change Everything (Start Here Series Vol 24)
Ep 865: Open Source AI 101: Why Local Models, Cheap APIs, and AI Agents Change Everything (Start Here Series Vol 24)
Ep 865: Open Source AI 101: Why Local Models, Cheap APIs, and AI Agents Change Everything (Start Here Series Vol 24)
Shownote
Shownote
Until a few months ago, open source AI was kinda a hobby project. Now, it's tearing corporate boardrooms apart. Why? Over the past 6ish months, the gap between frontier closed AI and open sourced AI has shrunk to pretty much nothing. And with the sur...
Highlights
Highlights
Open-source AI has moved from a niche experiment to a serious enterprise alternative. This episode explains why shrinking performance gaps, cheaper APIs, local models, and always-on agents are changing how organizations should choose and deploy AI.
Chapters
Chapters
Introducing the Firefly AI assistant
00:00Open source AI cost benefits
03:33AI model performance differences
09:25Open source model improvements
10:19Advancements in local AI capabilities
15:28Impact of Google's Gemma four
17:04Introducing Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant
22:15Adobe Firefly AI assistant beta launch
24:19Choosing the right AI tools
29:26Shifting workloads to open source
32:00Using open-source and closed models
33:31The future of open models
36:47Transcript
Transcript
Jordan Wilson: Welcome to the Everyday AI podcast. My name is Jordan Wilson and for the past three and a half years, we put out more than 800 episodes. Yet, one of the most common questions I get, I didn't really have an answer for. Where do I start on the...
