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Design an on-device AI assistant (runs locally on a phone or laptop).

On-device AI trades raw capability for privacy, offline use, and latency, under brutal memory and battery limits. The signal is the small-quantized-model stack plus a hybrid router that escalates the hard queries to the cloud without leaking private context.

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On-device AI trades raw capability for privacy, offline use, and latency, under brutal memory and battery limits. The signal is the small-quantized-model stack plus a hybrid router that escalates the hard queries to the cloud without leaking private context.

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