You're the third person in the last 40 minutes to post a comment in this thread sharing a link to promote that project. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... It must be a good project.

It is, but I guess the reason it's mentioned so much right now is that the author posted a pretty convincing video a few days ago to Reddit: https://youtu.be/bsRnh_brggM (post: https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/18s45of/every_llm_in...)

From what I see, gptel is more interested in creating the best and least intrusive interface - it doesn't concern itself too much about which model you're using. The plan is to outsource the "connection" (API, local) to the LLM to another package, eventually.