Big name AI may get all the headlines, but behind the scenes there’s another revolution going on. AI chatbots are slowly but surely moving onto the smartphone – not connected to the cloud, but running locally and privately on the device itself. I recently spent some time testing out three new free AI chat apps for Android, to find out whether they’re worth installing.
The driver behind this move to mobile devices is the rise and rise of extremely capable open source AI models like Llama 3.2, which can now approach the performance of large models but in a much smaller footprint.
