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Local multimodal search makes vector storage your primary hardware bottleneck
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Skipping captioning and transcription simplifies your local stack but significantly increases the footprint of your vector store. You must now prioritize high-dimensional index optimization on mobile hardware over model inference speed. This shift forces a rethink of memory budgeting for local RAG features.
Takeaways
- Eliminate captioning and transcription steps in your on-device search pipelines.
- Plan for vector index growth outstripping the actual model size on-device.
- Multimodal search is now a storage challenge rather than a compute one.
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Your phone’s vector index might be bigger than the AI model running it
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