But how good are these models compared to gpt4o? My last experience with llama2-8b was not great at all. Are there really that good models that would fit on an average consumer hardware (mine has already 32GB ram and 16GB vram)?
Exactly this. I am pretty sure he's bluffing, and even if not, by the time they decide to pull their operations, many alternative would be on the market (there are already many).