Desert Ant Labs launches European on-device AI lab with 18 local models
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-09-09
Desert Ant Labs launched as a European frontier lab focused on on-device intelligence, releasing 18 models spanning audio, vision, and text, with SDKs for Swift, Kotlin, and JavaScript. Everything runs locally: no tokens, no logins, nothing leaves the device. Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue endorsed the launch, arguing on-device AI is 'virtually free & fully privacy preserving' amid energy and compute shortages.
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