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Stratechery · Ben Thompson

The quiet return of small, on-device AI

Jun 13, 2026 9 min read
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Small, distilled models now run entirely on-device — no round trip to the cloud.
That makes privacy a property of the hardware, not a policy you have to trust.
The shift quietly reshapes cost, latency, and who actually controls the model.
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Privacy stops being a policy and becomes a property of where the computation happens.
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