Category
AI Phones
Smartphones as the on-device AI inference platform. Silicon advances in NPUs bring local LLMs, real-time vision, and privacy-preserving assistants.
Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck
Sony, these still look terrible.
Constraints: Thermal throttling under sustained inference, RAM ceiling for larger models, OS fragmentation for AI APIs.
Watch for: NPU TOPS announcements (Qualcomm/MediaTek/Apple), on-device model format standards, OS-level AI frameworks.