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

PrismML, a Khosla-backed startup, announced a breakthrough by shrinking Alibaba's 27-billion-parameter Qwen 3.6 AI model to run on an iPhone 17 Pro. This compressed version, under 4GB, retains full functionality for complex chat, reasoning, and coding, with all parameters active simultaneously. The open-source model will be available next Tuesday, potentially shifting AI processing from the cloud to devices and changing AI economics.