A new European lab put 18 free AI models on your phone.
Desert Ant Labs launched on Tuesday with 18 small models for audio, vision and text. Its 12-megabyte privacy model hides personal data in 27 languages without leaving the device. The models are free for up to 100,000 monthly devices, with kits for Swift and Kotlin.
Why it mattersOn-device models cost nothing per use and answer without a trip to a server. That makes small AI features realistic in apps that could never afford cloud bills.
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