bro google just casually released a 12 billion parameter multimodal model that runs on 16gb of ram
like… your macbook pro can run this. no cloud. no api calls. no monthly bill.
it’s encoder-free, handles images and text, apache 2.0 license so you can do whatever with it commercially
the “cloud is the only way” narrative is dying fast. on-device AI is not a gimmick anymore, it’s where the serious money is going
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