Local models in mid-2026
The Reddit community r/LocalLLaMA is discussing the future of running large language models locally by mid-2026. Participants anticipate that open-weight models will become sufficiently efficient to run on home hardware. This will be achieved not by requiring more RAM, but through techniques like sparse attention, Mixture of Experts (MoE), latent KV compression, multi-token prediction, and four-bit quantization. AI
IMPACT Efficiency improvements in LLMs could enable wider local deployment and experimentation.