A new privacy-focused app called LiberaGPT has launched on Android, and its pitch is unusual: it runs a 70-billion-parameter AI model entirely offline, directly on the phone.
According to a press release carried by USA Today, the app is free and works without an internet connection on high-end Android devices. The release describes the 70-billion-parameter model as "record breaking" for an app that runs fully on-device rather than routing requests to a company's servers.
That offline design is the core of the privacy claim. Most popular AI assistants send what you type to remote data centers to be processed. By keeping the model on the device, LiberaGPT positions itself as a tool where prompts and conversations need not leave the phone at all.
The "parameters" in the name are a rough measure of an AI model's size and capability — the more parameters, the more capable a model tends to be, but also the more computing power and memory it demands. Squeezing a 70-billion-parameter model onto a phone is the technical feat the launch is built around, which is why the app is aimed at high-end hardware rather than budget handsets.
The available source is a single press release announcing the launch; it does not detail which specific model is used, exact device requirements, or independent performance testing.
Why it matters: if powerful AI can run privately on a phone instead of in the cloud, it points toward a future where users get capable assistants without handing their data to anyone.