Ep 865: Open Source AI 101: Why Local Models, Cheap APIs, and AI Agents Change Everything (Start Here Series Vol 24)

Until a few months ago, open source AI was kinda a hobby project.  Now, it's tearing corporate boardrooms apart.  Why?  Over the past 6ish months, the gap between frontier closed AI and open sourced AI has shrunk to pretty much nothing. And with the surge of always on agents driving open models, their development and release schedule is on pace with the frontier labs.  So if your team isn't paying attention to -- and running test cases through -- open AI models, there's a good chance you'll either be overpaying or playing catch up soon.  We walk you through the 101 and what you need to know when it comes to open source AI in this Start Here Series special.  Newsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletter More on this Episode: Episode Page Today's Episode on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn and connect with other AI leaders. Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineup Website: YourEverydayAI.com Email The Show: info@youreverydayai.com Connect with Jordan on LinkedIn Topics Covered in This Episode: Open Source AI vs Closed Models Shift Chinese Model Distillation & Legal Impacts Enterprise AI Cost Triage Strategies Google Gemma 4 Local Model Capabilities Frontier Model Performance Gap Closing 24/7 Agentic AI Systems Overview API Pricing War: DeepSeek vs US Vendors Legal Protection Tradeoffs for Open Source AI AI Workflow Triage: Task-Specific Models Future Trends: Local and Specialized LLMs Timestamps: 00:00 Introducing the Firefly AI assistant 03:33 Open source AI cost benefits 09:25 AI model performance differences 10:19 Open source model improvements 15:28 Advancements in local AI capabilities 17:04 Impact of Google's Gemma four 22:15 Introducing Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant 24:19 Adobe Firefly AI assistant beta launch 29:26 Choosing the right AI tools 32:00 Shifting workloads to open source 33:31 Using open-source and closed models 36:47 The future of open models Keywords:  open source AI, open source models, local AI models, local models, closed source AI, closed models, proprietary AI, proprietary models, AI agents, agentic AI, AI workflow triage, cheap API, AI API costs, model distillation, Chinese open source models, China AI models, US AI models, Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info)