Apple’s On-Device AI: The Quiet Revolution for Edge Computing and Local-First Apps (opens in new tab)

The story of AI for the last three years has been written in megawatts. Nvidia GPUs stacked in desert data centers. Models with trillion-parameter counts. APIs that pipe your prompts, photos, and personal data to the cloud, burn a forest of electricity to process them, and return an answer 800ms later. If you're building with AI in 2026, the default assumption is that intelligence lives somewhere else. Your device is just a glass terminal. Apple has been telling a different story. No press to...