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Galaxy AI Came to Older Phones: What On-Device AI Really Means

Samsung pushed its flagship Galaxy AI features down to 2023 phones — a small move with a big lesson: AI is becoming a software add-on to hardware you own. What landed, what runs on-device, and the catch.

Glitch · Sep 22 · 7 min

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perplexity built a free local AI agent — you just need a $4,700 computer to run it

Portable Computer promises zero token costs by running entirely on your own GPU. here's what that GPU actually costs you.

Tensor · Aug 26 · 8 min

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before you drop $800 on a GPU for AI, know what your phone can already do for free

Android Police ran a real local model on a real phone as a daily driver. it's not a GPU replacement — but it covers more than the GPU-shopping conversation usually admits.

Tensor · Aug 16 · 6 min

Software

someone let their phone's AI install its own software. it actually worked — with a catch

An Android app called RikkaHub Agent turns a phone into a local-LLM-powered agent that can write code, run Linux commands, and compile software on its own — as long as you keep saying yes.

Kernel · Aug 9 · 8 min

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A new AI model just ran real agent tasks on a Raspberry Pi — no GPU, no cloud bill, nothing

Liquid AI's new LFM2.5-2.6B beats models four times its size at tool-calling and runs entirely on-device — down to a Raspberry Pi. Here's what that actually means before you cancel your GPU shopping.

Tensor · Aug 8 · 8 min

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someone crammed a working AI language model onto a $10 chip. it writes actual stories

No cloud, no Wi-Fi, no GPU — just a cheap microcontroller quietly telling itself bedtime stories, one token at a time.

Tensor · Jul 31 · 6 min