Older Google Pixel Smartphones Can Become Excellent Hubs For On-Device AI, As One Owner Shows A 4-Year-Old Handset Running An Uncensored 3B Model, With A Catch
An aging Pixel smartphone will always have multiple use cases, and while Google’s Tensor might be the most underpowered SoC after Huawei’s Kirin series, it’s still capable enough of running smaller AI models if configured properly. For instance, one enthusiast made a cyberdeck housing a Pixel 7 and ran Qwen2.5-abliterate:3b, a 3-billion-parameter uncensored model, which has its safety filters completely removed. Unfortunately, even running a smaller model on a Pixel 7 requires patience, as the handset only manages 5 tokens per second Using Claude Code, Redditor “Levfo” generated the…
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