How to run a local AI chatbot on your iPhone
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ENGADGET — When you run an AI chatbot off your iPhone, you can use it as much as you want. As a power user, you're very likely to hit your daily usage limit with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini if you don't pony up.
For the privacy-minded, local chatbots offer another advantage. None of the options I'll be recommending in this article require a login or for you to share your data with the labs that trained the models you want to run.
Something you also can't do with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini is use them without an internet connection, whereas local chatbots can run even if you're offline.
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