Best Alternatives to LLMs consume 5.4x less mobile energy than ad-supported web search
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The standard AI energy debate compares server-side LLM inference to a server-side Google query. I think this misses most of what actually happens on a mobile device during a real search session.I built a parametric model of the full end-to-end mobile search session: 4G/5G radio energy, SoC rend
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