alt Hacker NewsThis really shows the power of distillation. One thing I find amusing: download the Google Edge Gallery app and one of the chat models, then go into airplane mode and ask it about where it’s deployed. gemma-4-e2b-it is quite confident that it is deployed in a Google datacenter and that deploying it on a phone is completely impossible. The larger 4B model is much subtler: it’s skeptical about the claim but does seem to accept it and sound genuinely impressed and excited after a few turns.
I don’t know how any AI company can be worth trillions when you can fit a model only 12-18 months behind the frontier on your dang phone. Thought will be too cheap to meter in 10 years.
thank you for actually reading it and getting it. the airplane mode test is hilarious, the model sitting on your phone insisting it can't run on a phone. that's amazing. and yes we think exactly the same way. like picture a small business owner with a pi in the back office just quietly processing invoices, drafting email replies, summarizing meeting notes all day. no subscription, no cloud, no one sees their data. that's not a hypothetical, that works right now with this model. when that's free and fits in your pocket the trillion dollar question gets real uncomfortable real fast.