Compressed Version of Qwen-3.6-27B coming from PrismML - Khosla-Backed Startup Claims Breakthrough With Largest-Ever AI Model on an iPhone
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PrismML, a Khosla-backed startup, releases a compressed version of Qwen-3.6-27B, claiming it's the largest AI model ever to run on an iPhone.
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