There are plenty of examples and reasons to do so besides privacy- because one can, because it’s cool, for research, for fine tuning, etc. I never mentioned privacy. Your use case is not everyone’s.
All of those things you can still do renting AI server compute though? I think privacy and cool-factor are the only real reasons why it would be rational for someone to spend checks the apple store $19,000 on computer hardware...
Seriously?? You’ve never seen a company want to control its entire stack and hardware for ANY reason but privacy? Cloud is great, but it doesn’t fit every use case.
