169Pi Introduces Alpie Seed 9B, an AI Model Built to Run Offline on Smartphones and Laptops

Indian AI startup 169Pi has introduced Alpie Seed 9B, a multimodal AI model designed to run locally on laptops and smartphones without an internet connection. The 9-billion-parameter model can handle reasoning, coding, image and video understanding, and document analysis. It also supports a 262K-token context window and multiple device-friendly versions.

Built on Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B architecture and further refined by 169Pi through supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, Alpie Seed is released under the Apache 2.0 licence. The company says it has tested the model offline on devices including the iPhone 17 Pro and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8. Could locally running AI make advanced technology more accessible and private?

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