A 35B model that runs on a GPU-less PC — and on a phone — with stock llama.cpp

There is a quiet, crowded race in AI right now: not in the cloud, but on the device in your hand. On-device models run without a network, keep your data local, and cost nothing per token. Everyone from big tech to the open-source community is pushing that way. One of the most-cited names in that space is Bonsai — a 27B-class model compressed hard enough to run on a phone. Its family has passed 2 million downloads on Hugging Face, and it became the symbolic "big model in a small box." A Korean…