Local, Hosted, or Hybrid?

A hosted model is operated by a provider and accessed over a network. The user usually gets a managed endpoint and does not maintain the inference hardware. A local or self-hosted model runs in infrastructure controlled by the user or organization. A hybrid design sends some workloads to a local model and other workloads to a hosted model — according to task, sensitivity, quality, or availability.

Each option moves responsibility rather than eliminating it.…