AI at the edge is the new frontier and it offers a lot of advantages.

Google is smart to leverage their position as a leader in AI and their strong position with Android. Given the processing power on most modern smartphones, it's an underutilized resource.

On-device machine learning offers a number of benefits from speed (lower latency) to privacy. To help increase adoption on Android, Google is now adding an “Android ML Platform” â€" primarily TensorFlow Lite â€" directly to Play services. Google Play services is responsible for key user-facing features on Android and [...]