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Products that do what Qwen 3.5 running on a $300 Android phone – on-device, open source does
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:…
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Aug 2026 · github.com
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Last week was big for open source LLMs. We got: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) - Gemma-3 (27b) - DeepSeek-v3-0324 And a couple weeks ago we got the new mistral-ocr model. We updated our OCR benchmark to include the new models. We evaluated 1,000 documents for JSON extraction accuracy. Major takeaways: - Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) are by far the most impressive. Both landed right around 75% accuracy (equivalent to GPT-4o’s performance). Qwen 72b was only 0.4% above 32b. Within the margin of error. - Both Qwen models passed mistral-ocr (72.2%), which is specifically trained for OCR. - Gemma-3…
2025 · github.com
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Your phone has a GPU more powerful than most 2018 laptops. Right now it sits idle while you pay monthly subscriptions to run AI on someone else's server, sending your conversations, your photos, your voice to companies whose privacy policy you've never read. Off Grid is an open-source app that puts that hardware to work. Text generation, image generation, vision AI, voice transcription — all running on your phone, all offline, nothing ever uploaded. That means you can use AI on a flight with no wifi. In a country with internet censorship. In a hospital where cloud services are a compliance…
Feb 2026 · github.com
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Sep 2025 · github.com
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Hi HN! I'm just sharing a project I've been working on during the LLM Efficiency Challenge - you can now finetune Llama with QLoRA 5x faster than Huggingface's original implementation on your own local GPU. Some highlights: 1. Manual autograd engine - hand derived backprop steps. 2. QLoRA / LoRA 80% faster, 50% less memory. 3. All kernels written in OpenAI's Triton language. 4. 0% loss in accuracy - no approximation methods - all exact. 5. No change of hardware necessary. Supports NVIDIA GPUs since 2018+. CUDA 7.5+. 6. Flash Attention support via Xformers. 7. Supports 4bit and 16bit…
2023 · github.com
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Found that you can actually run a 35B Qwen model on a Pi with very impressive intelligence and stability. Built connectors for car ODB to read all about car internals, and manufacturer's cloud service for stuff like changing AC or opening/ locking doors. Gave it info such as the full car manual. And then hooked it up with my other agents in our discussion room! So now it can answer car questions such as "when should I add oil and what kind of oil?" and help you fully offline, and when online talk with the agent family that includes all the most powerful models so they know how the car…
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Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE, 104 GB at 4-bit) on Macs with a fraction of that RAM by streaming experts from SSD. MLX + Swift, Ollama-compatible API. - carloslfu/slotstream
5d ago · github.com
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