Neural Silicon vs. the Cloud: The Real Privacy and Battery Math of On-Device AI

Neural Silicon vs. the Cloud: The Real Privacy and Battery Math of On-Device AI

Every time you ask a recent phone or laptop to summarise a page, transcribe a meeting or rewrite a message, a routing decision has already been made behind the scenes: part of the work runs on a dedicated chip inside your device, and part of it travels to a server. Understanding where that boundary sits … Read more

EmbeddingGemma 2 Puts Five-Modal AI Search Directly on Your Smartphone

EmbeddingGemma 2 Puts Five-Modal AI Search Directly on Your Smartphone

Google DeepMind has launched EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740-million-parameter multimodal embedding model engineered to run entirely on the device rather than in the cloud. The model maps text, code, images, video and audio into a single 768-dimensional vector space, so an application can compare a voice memo against a video clip or a written query against … Read more