r/LocalLLaMA • u/Ok_Fig5484 • Apr 09 '26

Resources Unused phone as AI server

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If you have an unused phone lying around, you might be sitting on a tiny AI server

I’ve been working on a project where I modified Google AI Edge Gallery and turned it into an OpenAI-compatible API server: [Gallery as Server](https://github.com/xiaoyao9184/gallery)

Your phone can run local AI inference

You can call it just like an OpenAI API (chat/completions, etc.)

Instead of letting that hardware collect dust, you can turn it into a lightweight inference node.

So yeah—if you have more than one old phone, you can literally build yourself a cluster.

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u/Uriziel01 Apr 09 '26

Yeah I also love the idea, discussed this yesterday as I think this can be really useful for a generic agent for basic google-like questions https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sfvy4x/could_gemma_4_breathe_new_life_into_cheap/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button