Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhonekept by eddie • jul 15PrismML compressed Alibaba's Qwen model from 54 GB to under 4 GB to run on an iPhone, and Apple is in early talks to evaluate the technology.AboutAlibaba · Apple · PrismML · QwenFiled#ai#ai-integration#mobile#privacy#startupsRelatedSomething is afoot in the land of QwenAlibaba's Qwen team lead Junyang Lin and several other key researchers resigned, potentially losing the team behind the impressive open-weight Qwen 3.5 models.also on Alibaba, Qwen, #aiChina’s free Kimi K3 AI model shakes up global tech market - Rest of WorldChina's free Kimi K3 AI model lets governments run top-tier AI locally, avoiding costly US cloud rentals and enabling sovereign data control.also on Alibaba, #ai-integration, #ai9 theses on AI | Sarthak MunshiAI progress is constrained by long-task reliability, labor reallocation, cost inefficiencies of general APIs, the declining value of raw coding skills, inadequate benchmark testing, the limits of formal verification without strong specs, memory-bound local hardware advantages, the shift from data to environment-driven training, and the rising competitiveness of US open-weight models.also on Qwen, Apple, #startups, #aiLocal Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different toolLocal Qwen models are a different tool from frontier LLMs, offering privacy and fixed costs but suffering from looping and hallucination issues.also on Qwen, #privacy, #ai
Apple in talks with startup that shrinks AI models to run on an iPhone