Compressed Version of Qwen-3.6-27B coming from PrismML - Khosla-Backed Startup Claims Breakthrough With Largest-Ever AI Model on an iPhone

The startup, PrismML, said it has shrunk down Qwen 3.6 , an open-source large language model developed by Chinese internet giant Alibaba , to run on an iPhone 17 Pro. The model has 27 billion parameters , which are roughly similar to the synapses in a brain and can help determine the complexity of the data a model can process. In contrast, most models that run on mobile phones have only a few billion parameters active at a time. The largest AI models, which can measure in the trillions of parameters, are st