Craft is a robust and beautiful documents app with AI integration primarily through ChatGPT.Now Craft has shipped an AI-focused update that actually shows off the power of on-device, offline AI… Craft includes an AI assistant that makes working with documents easier for users.The Craft AI assistant is also flexible, letting you choose between models from different providers.
Over the weekend, Craft released an experimental feature to test using a local version of DeepSeek’s R1 model as an option for the Craft AI assistant.Craft currently uses the smallest R1 model, which uses less than 1GB of storage, with 1.5 billion parameters.It’s completely optional to use, and the user has to manually download it to start using it.
Based on early feedback, Craft is preparing to release an update that includes the ability to use the more capable R1 model with 7 billion parameters.It uses about 4GB of local storage, but vastly improves accuracy.Both models work completely offline after being installed; Craft never sends your data to Chinese servers.
These local models are completely separate from the cloud-based models used by the DeepSeek app and website.Experimenting with a local, offline model has led Craft in an intriguing direction.For that reason, Craft will also ship two installable models from Meta: LLaMa models with 1 billion and 3 billion parameters.
These models use less than 700MB and 2GB, respectively.The Craft AI assistant can still take advantage of server-connected AI models like ChatGPT.However, these new local, offline models are likely a sign of things to come for generative AI running on our iPhones, iPads, and Macs — and yes, even Apple Vision Pro, where Apple Intelligence is missing in action! More on the latest development from Craft’s blog: Learn more about Craft here.
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