How to Run AI Locally on iPhone 17 [Infographic]

Most of us play around with cloud-based AIs. While those are more than adequate for most people, they are not made to protect your privacy. The iPhone 17 may not be as big as a high-end desktop PC but it has enough power to run certain models. You can use apps such as MLC Chat, Private LLM, and Apollo to get started. This infographic covers some of the models you can run locally on iPhone 17:

While there are limits on the models you can run, you will be able to run a lot of GPT-Generated Unified Format models with Llama.ccp based apps. Models such as Phi 3, Gemma, Mistral, and Qwen are supposed with MLX apps.