Google has the benefit of billions of devices in the wild that they control. Anthropic really doesn’t have distribution for local models, makes sense they’re not playing in that space.

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embedding-shape 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, lots of differences. Point stands, they're distinguishing themselves in that way at least.

	▲	brookst 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh sure, full agreement. In fact given how mid Gemini has been in cloud, this may turn out to be critical strategy to avoid losing cloud to Anthropic / OpenAI / DeepSeek / whoever, and local to Apple (doesn’t seem likely now, but that’s what BlackBerry, Creative, Intel said).