On-device LLM inference for full data privacy is not yet practical
Developers and privacy-conscious users want to run large language models locally to prevent data leaving the device, but current hardware and software constraints make this infeasible for most real workloads. Models that fit in consumer memory are too limited; capable models require cloud APIs. There is no accessible toolchain for non-experts to achieve meaningful on-device inference with acceptable quality.
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