I don’t think OP’s point has anything to do with AI companions.

The big benefit of moving compute to edge devices is to distribute the inference load on the grid. Powering and cooling phones is a lot easier than powering and cooling a datacenter

Local ai is probably a good direction, i agree. But there was a part of their point that had to do with ai companions: the bit where they say we are closer to “her”-like ai companions. That was the bit i was responding to.