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Personal Devices · Recorded milestone

Phone with on-device AI

Recorded year2023

Phones run a language model on their own chip to summarise, translate, edit photos and draft replies, even without a connection.

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Built on

SmartphoneRecorded · 1994enables
Transformer architectureRecorded · 2017enables
AI chat assistantsRecorded · 2022enables

Led to

Screenless AI companionRecorded · 2024enables
Phone run by its AI agentForecast · ~2028enables
AI-compressed photosForecast · ~2030enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.