Is there any useful model you can run on a phone?

Try PocketPal instead

Llama.cpp (on which ollama runs on) can. And many chat programs for phones can use it.

How is Ollama compared to GPT models? I used the paid tier for work and I'm curious how this stacks up.

typically the phone home is looking for a response to unlock.

use a packet sniffer to see what the request/response is and replicate it with a proxy or response server.

this is also know as a man-in-the-middle (mitm).

takes skill and knowledge to do, but once you do a few dozen it's pretty easy since most software "phone homes" are looking for static non-encrypted responses.

It's decent, with the deepseek model anyway. It's not as fast and has a lower parameter count though. You might just need to try it and see if it fits your needs or not.

You never heard of ollama or docker model runner?

I've been using duck.ai recently myself and quite like it. My only complaint with it is that the chats have a length limit, so if you're working on complex projects you can run into those limits pretty quick. I use it for worldbuilding for a novel I'm working on and I have to use chatgpt for thematic stuff because it has a better memory, but otherwise it's great for quick/small things.

Excellent, I will be sure not to use this, like all Google shit.

In a few years you won't be able to anyway

All the time I spent trying to get rid of gemini just to now download this. Am I stupid?

Android and iOS.

I wouldn't think so - it depends on your priorities.

The open source and offline nature of this without the pretenses of "Hey, we're gonna use every query you give as a data point to shove more products down your face" seems very appealing over Gemini. There's also that Gemini is constantly being shoved in our faces and preinstalled, whereas this is a completely optional download.

I'm just reaching the end game faster then.

There is already GPT4All.

Convenient graphical interface, any model you like (for Llama fans - of course it's there), fully local, easy to opt in or out of data collection, and no fuss to install - it's just a Linux/Windows/MacOS app.

For Linux folks, it is also available as flatpak for your convenience.

god i can't wait for the ai bubble to pop

Wonder what this has over its competitors, I hesitate to think they released this for fun though

Thanks for the info!

Tell that to my Red Dead Redemption 2 install.

Google hosting their shit on Microsofts servers and telling you to sideload and not using their own software distribution method for their own OS is kind of crazy if you think about it