Llama-Cpp
Ships vs. Slides: Silo Runs On-Device Today While Edge0 Runs a Render
Edge0's founder is pulling 3,600+ likes on LinkedIn with a slick clip of an iPhone running a 35B model on-device. The trouble: there is no iOS app in the Edge0 repo, the founder concedes the phone app is 'coming soon,' and the demo reads as AI-generated. Meanwhile Silo, a one-developer app on the App Store since early 2025, already does private, offline, on-device LLM chat for real, with a year of unglamorous commit history to prove it. I walk the two repos side by side: what ships vs. what's narrated, and why the harder claim (35B MoE streaming on a phone) is still unproven.
Tags:
Forensics, On-Device-Ai, Apple-Silicon, Llama-Cpp, Ios, Open-Source, Ai
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