What does “good enough” mean here though? At the moment I highly doubt that we’ll get anywhere near the performance of frontier models on hardware accessible to the average user, due to the limitations of physics itself. Then on the model side of things I think there’s probably a limit on how small we can go before accuracy becomes a major issue, and I don’t think that limit would be something that consumer hardware would be able to run (and by consumer hardware I mean your average sub $1000 gaming PC, not bleeding edge M6 Macs)

I don’t even get what “left behind” even really means here? It’s not like they’re at the cutting edge of some winner takes all race, they’re building already established tech (email, cloud storage, etc.) based on a specific ideology (privacy), and all they already have enough momentum and brand recognition to just continue riding the current privacy-tech wave. I just don’t get why they felt the need to rock the boat with drama like this. This whole saga just reads too much like VC backed “move fast and break things” mindset which would put a sizeable chunk of their core customer base off the product