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Running Qwen 3 on a five-year-old Android phone with LiteRT-LM (what I measured)

by Phoenix Labs dev.to

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I ship Phoenix Local AI, a private AI chat app for Android. You can connect it to a cloud model, but the point is that it can run a model on the phone itself, in airplane mode, with nothing leaving the device. The on-device engine is LiteRT-LM, Google's runtime for .litertlm model files, called from Flutter. Getting it to answer at all was one job. Getting it to answer at a speed a person will wa…

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