An aspect of AI that's really underdiscussed is just the basic switch from doing all your searches logged out to now being forced to be logged in somewhere. That much alone is disqualifying for me.
Google AI Edge Gallery now runs Gemma-4-E2B-it locally on an iPhone after a 2.5Gb download.
No network calls needed, claims Google.
Self-hosting is always a strong option for privacy seeking people, as it should be.
Seems like there might be demand for chat clients with end-to-end encryption.