Newer phones ship with chips designed to run AI models directly on the device instead of sending data to a server.
Things that run locally
Live captions for any video, voice typing, erasing objects from photos and summarising notes can all work offline on recent models.
Why local matters
Nothing is uploaded, so it is faster and more private, and it still works on a plane.
What still needs the cloud
Large, general-purpose assistants and image generation at high quality still rely on servers for most phones.
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