From Remote APIs to Local Runtimes: AI Infrastructure Comes of Age

The AI landscape is shifting from cloud-dependent API calls to locally-managed model infrastructure, creating an ecosystem that mirrors Docker's containerization approach. This evolution introduces new challenges around model selection, governance, and orchestration, requiring developers to think of AI not just as a chatbot feature but as a foundational software layer. Ollama and standardized catalogs like models.dev are laying the groundwork for this infrastructure transformation.