Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
Summary
Desert Ant Labs announces a suite of on-device AI models for audio, vision, and text, designed to run with no cloud or per-token costs. The article highlights fast, small models (Voz, Clear, Redact, Tongue) with benchmarks and a unified SDK for Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript, along with privacy-first data handling in Europe. It argues that on-device inference can outperform cloud-based or frontier models in speed and cost, enabling apps to run entirely offline.