# on-device AI insights

Rangoon Insights reporting and guides tagged on-device AI.

Canonical: https://rangoon.ai/insights/tags/on-device-ai/

## Topics
- [Agent systems](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/agents/): Agent runtimes, handoffs, tools, and the boundaries that make them reviewable.
- [Governance](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/governance/): Policy, identity, authorization, approvals, and evidence for consequential work.
- [Infrastructure](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/infrastructure/): Model serving, sandboxes, tool services, and deployment boundaries.
- [Models](https://rangoon.ai/insights/topics/models/): Inference choices, local serving, compatibility, and operational tradeoffs.

## Stories
- [Arm’s Lumex launch made on-device AI a CPU, GPU, system-IP and software-stack choice](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-arm-lumex-css-platform-september-2025/)
  Arm announced Lumex on September 10, 2025, a partner SoC platform joining SME2 C1 CPUs, Mali G1 GPUs and KleidiAI software.
- [SmolVLM’s 2B release made local vision evaluation a memory-and-input contract](https://rangoon.ai/insights/archive-hugging-face-smolvlm-open-vision-2024/)
  Hugging Face introduced SmolVLM on November 26, 2024 as an open 2B vision-language family with base, synthetic and instruction-tuned variants.


## More information

- [Documentation index](https://rangoon.ai/llms.txt)
- [AI access and policies](https://rangoon.ai/ai/)
- [Source repository](https://github.com/hypler-dev/rangoon)