It’s becoming standard for people to carry around their own personalized AI.
This trend has been building for a while, but since the arrival of Apple Intelligence, it’s something we now feel on a daily basis. Compared to cloud-based AI, there are still challenges. But that’s not the point.
For example, if the vast amount of personal data stored on iOS devices can be leveraged properly, it could unlock entirely new use cases—and boost accuracy through completely different mechanisms.
Eventually, AI will run fully offline, even in places without an internet connection. That in itself marks a major social shift.
Smartphones will no longer be just personal computers. They’ll become AI servers, memory devices, and decision-making systems. Once local AI can carry out self-contained dialogue and processing without relying on connectivity, privacy will be redefined—and sovereign computing will become real.
It’s like an extended brain. One that learns about you, runs inside you, and optimizes itself for your needs. You’ll decide what to retain, what to allow it to learn from, and what to keep private. All those decisions will happen entirely within you.
It’s a world fundamentally different from today’s cloud-first AI paradigm.
There was a time when servers lived inside companies.
Then came the age when servers moved to the cloud.
And now, we’re entering an era where servers are distributed inside individuals.
This shift isn’t going to stop.