on-device-ai

Latest stories covering on-device-ai, with summaries and links to related coverage.

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• Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC

  2026-07-06

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  Google Chrome has installed a 4GB AI model named Gemini Nano on users' PCs without consent. The model is located in the browser's folder and is intended to enhance privacy features.

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• Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference

  2026-04-15

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  Google's Gemma 4 model family now runs natively on iPhones, enabling full local AI inference offline. Early benchmarks show the 31B variant of Gemma 4 performing comparably to Qwen 3.5's 27B model.

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• Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon

  2026-03-10

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  5 min read

  RCLI is an on-device voice AI for macOS that allows users to interact with their Mac and query documents without requiring cloud services. It features a complete STT, LLM, and TTS pipeline running natively on Apple Silicon, with 38 macOS actions available via voice and sub-200ms end-to-end latency.

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