TREE NEWS update: vivo is pre-researching a BlueLM 30B MoE on-device large model for use on smartphones, vice president Zhou Wei said on September 16 at the 2026 vivo Developer Conference. He said memory and compute are the main barriers to running large models on phones, and that if capability improves substantially and only about 3-12GB of memory is needed per load, handsets could take over inference tasks currently handled by cloud models.
vivo Pre-Researching BlueLM 30B MoE On-Device Model for Phones
The significance here is architectural rather than product-level: a handset maker openly framing on-device inference as a future substitute for cloud models signals where the cost and privacy argument is heading. The stated memory and compute barriers are the same constraints that shape how much of any AI workload stays local, and the per-load memory range is the number worth tracking. Whether capability gains actually bring that footprint down is the open question, and it matters most to cloud inference providers and app developers.
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