The Cognitive Revolution · Saturday, July 4, 2026
Liquid AI, a company spun out of MIT, is developing device-native foundation models designed for edge devices with limited processing power. CEO Ramin Hassani highlighted that the $800 billion global smartphone and laptop market represents a massive opportunity, especially given concerns about privacy and data control. The company's approach focuses on efficient, biologically inspired algorithms.
“Considering the fact that the global smartphone and laptop market is roughly $800 billion per year, a number which the global AI data center buildout is only now surpassing, the demand for inference threatens to price much of the world out of the frontier model market.”
“And so many enterprises and individuals value privacy and the ability to control their own information, this is an absolutely massive market opportunity onto itself.”
“So, Liquid AI three and a half years ago, we spun out of MIT. C-cell, building on a technology that we have actually have been working on it like 10 years before, like basically like a decade before.”