Annual smartphone market equals data center buildout creating trillion-dollar edge compute opportunity

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"There's a lot of devices, like you're talking about billions of devices in the world that mobile devices can be extremely useful. And you've seen like that market itself, by the way, just the mobile kind of business is $500 billion market, is absolutely insane. And it is as big as kind of the data center kind of market. So you can imagine like there is There is a parallel here to be made, like, you know, the efficient markets, you know, and also constrained intelligence market. It's something that Liquid AI is going after. Laptop markets, you know, like, let's say wearables, robotics, manufacturing, IoT kind of systems."

Ramin Hassani highlights that the global smartphone market alone represents $500 billion annually, matching the scale of data center investments, with laptops adding another $500 billion. This trillion dollars of edge compute shipped annually represents massive untapped substrate for local AI, which current foundation models cannot efficiently utilize due to memory and power constraints.