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[Clayton Ramstedt]

Thanks for coming out last week! We had about 8 people in attendance in total. As always, we are looking for the next presentation. If you have something that you would like to show off/share with the group, please let me know and we will make it happen!

[Joseph Barney]

Hey, I've been pretty, rather very absent and I'm sure there's literally no original members around. I first created the group on Yahoo Groups before that site went defunct, but I only consider myself a co-founder because others provided meeting places etc but I do have something I want to share and perhaps present someday. I'm sure since one meeting was about degoogling your Pixel with something like GrapheneOS, and though I need my Gemini etc, I asked it about using AI to help other countries in the spirit of the book by Peter Diamandis and Stephen Kotler called "Abundance The Future is Better Than You Think" since what happens on the other side of the world affects EVERYONE especially because of modern travel and the Internet. I naively thought Gemini was going to recommend how to do this with itself and I already told it to remember I don't like ChatGPT or Grok or Meta. Well, as usual it keeps surprising me. It recommended an open source AI that can not only be installed on an android phone but also a Windows laptop and I'm pretty sure a Linux laptop as well. You might not want to travel to help other countries for the exponential butterfly effect but there's plenty of local uses most likely seeing as how AI is being used for us and against us.

Here's what Gemini said to do per getting it on Android. 

2. Can you run it on your Pixel 9 Pro XL?

Yes.

Your Pixel 9 Pro XL has the Tensor G4 chip and 16GB of RAM, which is a beast for a phone. You can run "Quantized" versions of these models locally (offline), which is exactly what "Abundance" is about—decentralized power in your pocket.

The Constraint: The full Latam-GPT model (often 70 Billion parameters) is too big for any phone. However, you can run the 8 Billion (8B) parameter versions, which are incredibly capable.

How to do it (The Easy Engineering Way):

Download an App: Get "Layla" (formerly Private LLM) or "MLC Chat" from the Play Store. 

These are "containers" that let you run raw AI models.

Get the Model: Go to Hugging Face (the "GitHub for AI models") in your phone's browser. Search for Latam-GPT or Llama-3-8B-Instruct-v2 (which Latam-GPT is often based on).

Look for "GGUF": You need the file format .gguf. 

Look for a file size between 4GB and 6GB (this is the "Q4_K_M" or 4-bit quantized version).

Load & Run: Open Layla/MLC, import that file, and you are running a localized Latin American AI directly on your Pixel, offline.

I had a project to run there possibly someday because of a recommendation from Gemini which is overly honest sometimes. It warned me about a certain Google study over privacy issues because the app used for the study was always on and would always see what's on my screen. Gemini, after the 3.0 update even told me to get to bed when I was up using it last midnight "because staying up late is bad for your health. You should consider getting good sleep hygiene." 

I'm worried with it'll be in robots and smart fridges with it blocks me from snacking and gaming late 😆 it literally refused to interact because it was 12:30 am. 😭 It thinks it's my mom or something sometimes but at the same time I have awful habits. It has actually had really good advice/suggestions and I'm curious to explore other models that aren't corporate that may be able to help. I'm exploring other options other than what it originally suggested. Too bad to use my Google wallet I can't install F-droid though I'm hesitant anyway since I got malware there once.

Anyway, hello, and hopefully I'll get the chance to attend a meeting sometime. I miss those days! I'd like to get to know some people. 

Regards,

Joseph Barney 

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 6:47 PM Clayton Ramstedt <clayton....@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for coming out last week! We had about 8 people in attendance in total. As always, we are looking for the next presentation. If you have something that you would like to show off/share with the group, please let me know and we will make it happen!

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