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Compared with commercial services accessed through cloud APIs, the core differences of open-source models are that data does not leave the local environment, they can be retrained on vertical-domain data, and there are no pay-per-use costs; the trade-off is that users must bear the compute deployment, inference optimization and ongoing maintenance themselves.
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