Pocket AI is the broader movement around running self-hosted AI on hardware that fits on a desk, in a rack-unit, or genuinely in a pocket. The bet is that hardware in 2026 (Raspberry Pi 5, mini PCs, Apple Silicon) is good enough to host useful AI agents and local LLMs at a fraction of the recurring cost of cloud-AI alternatives — provided you're willing to do the operations work.
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