Apple is in talks with the startup shrinking a 27B AI model onto an iPhone
THE SO WHAT
If a 27B-parameter model can be compressed to run credibly on-device, the ceiling on what “offline” assistants can do just moved. For product teams, that means revisiting assumptions about what must live in the cloud — latency-sensitive, privacy-critical workflows may shift to phones and laptops faster than your current roadmap assumes.
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