DIY visual Siri: wiring Ling 3.0 Flash VL into a China iPhone via Shortcuts and OpenRouter
alifcoder · x · 2026-09-23
- China-market iPhones lack Apple Intelligence, so the author built their own using iOS Shortcuts + OpenRouter with the free Ling 3.0 Flash VL — InclusionAI's 124B/5.5B-active MoE with native vision, a 262K context window, tool calling, and hybrid instant/reasoning modes.
- Snap a photo and it goes straight to the vision model: filming a page of an NVIDIA press release returned a Chinese summary, key facts, risks, and suggestions within seconds — effectively a homemade "visual Siri."
- Next steps: screenshot recognition, follow-up questions with context, and voice activation. The model is currently free to call on OpenRouter.
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