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   Qwen 2.5▲290

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   2025

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   Merlin Unified API▲310

   One unified API for all AI models like Gemini, GPT-4, DALL-E

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   Lemonfox.ai▲157

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    Qwen 3.5 running on a $300 Android phone – on-device, open source▲6

    Qwen 3.5 Small dropped two days ago. I had it running on a mid-tier Android phone within hours. It's great seeing the on-device AI community light up around this release. Off Grid brings it to Android: phones with 6GB RAM in the $200-300 range, ~8 tok/sec on the 2B model. Fully offline. Text generation, vision AI, image gen, voice transcription, tool calling, document analysis — all on-device, nothing uploaded, ever. Works in airplane mode. 780+ GitHub stars. ~2,000 downloads across Android and iOS. Early days. GitHub:…

    Mar 2026 · github.com

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    DeepRoute API▲1

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    AI API Cost Calculator▲3

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