I turned my phone into a local LLM server, and it handles vision, voice, and tool calls
…If you try to run a Q4 or Q8 mmproj, it produces garbage output for both images and audio. BF16 costs you more memory, but on a phone with 16GB, it doesn…
…If you try to run a Q4 or Q8 mmproj, it produces garbage output for both images and audio. BF16 costs you more memory, but on a phone with 16GB, it doesn…
Jasmine Mannan Mar 25, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…Thanks to the massive demand for memory, storage, and GPUs, it's basically impossible for the average consumer to buy a RAM kit, SSD, or graphics card. It's best to make…
…These apps all have their own version of an "AI overview" that does a similar thing, but instead of going and looking at each thing individually, I can click one button and…
Mahnoor Faisal May 4, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT Mahnoor Faisal is a tech journalist covering AI and productivity tools with bylines at XDA , SlashGear , MakeUseOf , Laptop Mag , and Android Police . She…
…It started as a half-baked technology that boosted framerates at the cost of visual accuracy. With time, however, upscaling has evolved into a highly refined AI-powered algorithm that provides native…
Jasmine Mannan Apr 30, 2026, 7:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
Jasmine Mannan Apr 18, 2026, 3:30 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…
…Anthropic is primarily an AI safety and research company. Its founding mission is rooted in making AI that is safe and understandable, which is why safety-focused training methods like Constitutional AI…
Jasmine Mannan Apr 21, 2026, 8:00 PM EDT Jasmine is Software and PC Hardware Author at XDA with years of tech reporting experience ranging from AI chatbots right down to gaming…