[zozbot234]

Phones and laptops are terrible devices for local AI, way too constrained by bad thermals and small batteries. MiniPC's (many of them using mobile hardware) don't have that particular issue, and can easily run on a 24/7 basis.

[trollbridge]

Phones are also a terrible place to run a radio, but there's a huge amount of benefit in figuring out how to do so.

[observationist]

That level of local AI is also more or less what you need for competent autonomous robots, too. If your household robots are orchestrated from your phone, the local security and cloud convenience converge on a single device. No extra servers, etc, reduced cost, all that - local AI is a massive market amplifier.

[yard2010]

Let me speculate - we are going in the weird direction of no private property unless you're an overlord that rents his property to peasants. I like to call it the revenge of communism. See how the market behaves in the llm space - it's more viable to share infrastructure than to own it. Imagine the private car revolution in the US was a bus revolution.

[trollbridge]

We’ve been dreaming about this since the days of talking about wifi mesh networking, but it seems to never happen.