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As models gets better and better, running them half-on-a-datacenter-half-on-a-laptop becomes less practical every day. That’s why we think that each user now needs its own machine, ready to do your best work.— Paul Rony (@Paul_Rony) August 21, 2026
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If you have WhatsApp, Signal, if you've ever opened a PDF on your device, if you run iOS, Android, and even an OS like Graphene, your chances of having this software on your phone is more than zero.Even Graphene pretends to be uncrackable, but clever marketing is used to cover… https://t.co/gaVzq4tAZm— 7SEES (@7SEES_) February 11, 2026
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According to benchmarks Qwen3.5 4B is as good as GPT 4o.GPT 4o came out ~2 years ago (May 2024).Qwen 3.5 4B runs easily on modern mobile devices.So the gap between frontier intelligence in a datacenter and running a model of equal quality on your iPhone could be 2-3 years.…— Awni Hannun (@awnihannun) March 6, 2026
