Forget the Chatbots. AI’s True Potential Is Cheap, Fast and on Your Devices

When I tap the app for Anthropic’s Claude AI on my phone and give it a prompt — say, “Tell me a story about a mischievous cat” — a lot happens before the result (“The Great Tuna Heist”) appears on my screen.

My request gets sent to the cloud — a computer in a big data center somewhere — to be run through Claude’s Sonnet 4.5 large language model. The model assembles a plausible response using advanced predictive text, drawing on the massive amount of data it’s been trained on. That response is then…