Beyond the Chatbox: What Changes When AI Runs Where You Are - Christian Keller - Meta - dotAI 2026

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This talk explores how AI deployment fundamentally changes when running on edge devices like laptops, phones, and wearables instead of cloud data centers. Christian Keller explains why form factor constraints drive model choice, how specialized models solve problems that generic prompting cannot, and why open weights make this design space navigable for developers. The video is for engineers and product leads building AI products that need to run efficiently on consumer hardware.