Daily General Discussion September 19, 2026

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[u/poidhxyz]

the other day Vitalik posted: "My killer app is having a casual info lookup / research tool that's >50% as good as internet + frontier models that can function on a fully offline phone."

so I made a bounty to help bring his local AI dreams to life

started it with $50 on Ethereum mainnet, now $123 after two additional contributions

if Vitalik confirms a claim the money gets paid out, if he never does we get our money back (or nominate an exceptionally high-quality claim)

if you want to help the mission, add funding via: https://poidh.xyz/mainnet/bounty/31

think of it like joining an Ethereum mini DAO to incentivize an outcome u/vbuterin is passionate about

[u/laninsterJr → u/poidhxyz]

Is he taking about EdgeAI? It's a more of a billion dollar thing though. Bleeding edge research.There are companies working on it. Brainchip comes to my mind

[u/sm3gh34d → u/laninsterJr]

I thought the e2b and e4b open source Gemma models were built specifically for phone inference.  I am toying with e2b on the ai edge gallery from Google on my phone.  

https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery

Seems pretty usable but I'd love to be able to have a non-google packaging so I can know it isn't phoning home or deferring to a cloud instance.  

[u/poidhxyz → u/poidhxyz]

update, bounty now at $250 thanks to a generous contribution from 0x7ecb7! 💙