this launch is WAY bigger than "AI privacy"... for the last three years, every AI assistant has worked the same way you type a message, it travels to a data center, a giant model answers, and a copy of the conversation stays on someone else's server (incredibly dangerous if someone gets access) that one design choice shaped everything about how we use AI: - privacy became a setting you have to go find, instead of something built in - your chats can end up stored, reviewed or used to train the next model - every answer costs the company server time, so you pay a subscription and still hit message caps - it stops working the second you lose signal we accepted all of that because the good models were too big to run anywhere else that's the part that just changed a free model running on a Mac through Loci now outscores Claude Opus 4.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index for everyday writing, summaries, files and planning, the laptop you already own is enough once the AI runs on your own hardware, the rest of the trade-offs fall away with it your chats stay on your device, so there's nothing to train on and deleting a chat deletes it there are no servers to pay for, so it can be free with no cap. and it keeps answering on a plane or in a dead zone local AI has existed for a while, but it lived in apps built for tinkerers what Loci is doing now is the piece that makes it mainstream: putting it inside iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and Slack, the places people already talk all day the honest truth though... the hardest reasoning problems still need the biggest cloud models, and a phone runs a smaller model than a high-end Mac so I don't think the cloud goes away i think the default flips your personal, everyday AI runs on your own machine, and the data center becomes the thing you call for the heavy lifting that's a very different industry from the one we've been building toward, and I'm curious how fast the big players respond