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I tried replacing my phone's cloud AI with a local model for a week, and here's what I gave up

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By Mahnoor Faisal Verified
| XDA Developers
Despite having been in the AI game since before ChatGPT became a household name, the world of local LLMs admittedly once terrified me. What's interesting here was that it was never the quality that scared me off. Instead, it was everything around it. The setup looked complex, it demanded a fair bit of technical tinkering, and it seemed to require hardware far beefier than anything I owned.
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Your phone + a $0 local model beats paying for Claude Pro, and here's what I actually do with it

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By Mahnoor Faisal Verified
| XDA Developers
If it hasn't hit you just yet, AI tools are only going to get more and more expensive to use. The usage you could once get out of the free tier is half of what you now get on the $20 plan, and the $20 plan increasingly feels like the on-ramp to a $100 or $200 tier that didn't even exist eighteen months ago. Besides tools getting pricier to use, the funny bit is that they're getting more limited while they do it. You would expect paying more to mean fewer walls, not more of them.
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By Mahnoor Faisal Verified
| XDA Developers
Everyone, and I mean everyone on the internet, has been pushing the narrative that you need to adapt to AI and find ways to integrate it into your workflow meaningfully. I don't disagree with that sentiment, and I've been one of those voices. But despite how much the world is changing, there's another narrative I've begun to push more and more: that we need to start reading and consuming real, literate content now more than ever.
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