An AI model in your pocket

OpenAI, Google, and others want to build massive general models tapped with APIs. The actual future will look quite different than that.

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Since the launch of ChatGPT, a tsunami of comparative models has emerged in the form of low-parameter lightweight large language models that achieve near-parity with the foundation models.

More importantly, fewer parameters mean a much smaller and more nimble model size: one you can fit, process effectively, and access locally on your laptop o…