Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
inference — Running a trained model to get answers — the phase where AI is actually used, as opposed to trained.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
Why it matters
A production SDK of small on-device models (transcription, PII redaction, audio cleanup) removes per-tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → cloud costs and enables offline features, with published benchmarks beating larger cloud/local incumbents like Whisper.
