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, #aiSmaller models are the future of AI sovereigntyAI sovereignty means retaining the ability to choose, govern, replace, and walk away from AI systems, achievable through smaller, controllable models rather than relying solely on proprietary frontier models.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