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Google has also a global weather model yielding by ten day predictions, and open street map runs local as well. Just today with GraphHopper and a map of Europe I can generate 2700 routes per second on my workstation. When I was young these were not things you could run at home!


Add to that Qwen3-Omni which can run on a well spec'd workstation, and will happily carry on natural language spoken conversations with you, and can work intelligently with images and video as well as all the other stuff LLMs already do.

I don't think Paramount would look kindly on giving it Majel Barret's voice, but it sure feels like talking to the computer on the holodeck.


For personal use, I won't tell Paramount :)


It's wild how much has shifted in just a couple of decades




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