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iOS machine learning platform moves into beta

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Re: iOS machine learning platform moves into beta

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This looks interesting! A couple questions: How does this compare to CoreML? What are the advantages of running models on-device vs in the cloud via an API?

Skafos actually leverages CoreML and the models do run on device. It's a live update to device local models in the background, or even hot swap while in the foreground.

Re: iOS machine learning platform moves into beta

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This looks interesting! A couple questions: How does this compare to CoreML? What are the advantages of running models on-device vs in the cloud via an API?

Not all models need to run on the device - of course. BUT there are a few that make a lot of sense. It all depends on speed and what you want to offload to the device. Example, a more quickly responsive (even when offline) image classification (eg is this poison ivy or not) model is best on device. Or in an AR-kit app. Or privacy, like not wanting to ship a medical image across the pipe and so on.