Kevin Surace predicts iPhones will run AI models like today's KIMI-3 entirely on-device within three to five years. This would kill cloud-based inference costs and upend the business model that depends on them.
This AI expert revealed why in just a few years we might not even need to pay for OpenAI anymore. And here's why.
You just say, where does this go? And you follow Moore's Law for the next 5 years. The amount of horsepower in an iPhone, in the neural processor set of processors that are in an iPhone, means you're going to run a model very close to what KIMI-3 is today. Does that make sense? 3 to 5 years from now, you're running in your iPhone. If you are doing all that inference within the iPhone itself, I never need OpenAI's cloud at all. I don't need their cloud. Like the whole way they make money is they charge me for usage, I am never going to use it ever. It's all going to be right here.
