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"Tensor" isn't offloading anything, it's the Android apps that are doing that to Google cloud. Not sure what the SoC has to do with that?

• wmf 3y ago
  But why don't those apps use the local AI engine?
  • abeyer 3y ago
    Because ads aren't local
    • kibwen 3y ago
      The mothership needs to inform the phone whether it should inject a subliminal Pepsi logo into the generated image, or a subliminal Nike logo.
  • izacus 3y ago
    Er, have you seen the hardware requirements for latest high quality AI models? They won't even run on your MacBook, much less on a mobile SoC. This really shoulnd't be a hard thing to check on a HACKER news forum which constantly talks about modern AI.
    • astrange 3y ago
      Which latest high quality AI models? MacBooks have unified memory which means they are well suited for running many of them. (As long as it's the 16GB+ models.)
      • izacus 3y ago
        And Pixel 8 doesn't have 16GB+ of RAM.
• jrflowers 3y ago
  Who wrote the Android apps you’re talking about?