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It Depends: the final and honest take on client-side AI
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Role
Machine Learning Engineer
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Hugging Face
Category
Community
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nico Martin is a Machine Learning Engineer with focus on WebML at 🤗 Hugging Face and Google Developer Expert in AI and Web Technologies from Switzerland.
He specializes in making AI accessible through web browsers, developing tools that simplify ML integration for developers. Nico actively shares his expertise through workshops, articles, and conference presentations, bridging the gap between web development and machine learning communities.
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It Depends: the final and honest take on client-side AI
Client-side AI is having a moment. With tools like Transformers.js and APIs like WebGPU, we can now run sophisticated ML models directly in the browser - no server required. But should we? In this talk, we'll cut through the hype and explore when client-side AI actually makes sense. We'll look at the technical foundations (quantization, tokenizers, model architectures), dive into real-world use cases, and compare the trade-offs: privacy vs. performance, latency vs. model size, accessibility vs. capability. From image processing to language models, we'll examine which tasks thrive client-side and which still belong on the server. Sometimes the answer is clear, sometimes it's nuanced, and sometimes a hybrid approach is the way forward - it depends!
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