Yes, they are slower. However, I think that the pricing we’re going to see from the cloud providers might be enough to deter quite a lot of people. At least I hope so:

The fact that we’re already used to blazing speed generation kinda sucks. Local models are a much more sustainable way of unlocking the benefits of LLMs than giant ecosystem- and community-destroying data centers.

Except for the obvious edit adding Graham’s name, yes this is a real thing Donald Trump posted on Truth Social when former FBI director Robert Mueller died.