The AI Mainframe Era Is Ending: The Rise of On-Device Intelligence Will Democratize Compute Power
In the 1960s and 1970s, computing was the exclusive domain of massive mainframe computers housed in climate-controlled rooms and guarded by corporations and governments. Ordinary people accessed power only through time-sharing terminals—if they could afford it. Then came the personal computer revolution. Suddenly, compute was in everyone’s hands, sparking an explosion of innovation, entrepreneurship, and…