Why your health AI should run on your phone

Most AI health assistants send your question to a remote server. Researchers studying small language models for health note that this raises concerns around privacy, security and delay.

A small language model runs on the device itself. Your question and its answer can stay on your phone, and the response doesn’t depend on a round trip to a data centre.

A small model can still get numbers wrong, so it needs guardrails. Telomy’s trained engines do the arithmetic, LLX explains the result, and a number check discards any answer containing a figure that isn’t in your record.