NimbleEdge, a frontrunner in privacy-first AI innovation, announced the launch of DeliteAI, the world’s first open-source, fully on-device agentic AI platform purpose-built for mobile devices. Designed to eliminate dependence on cloud infrastructure, DeliteAI enables developers to build, deploy, and scale AI-native applications directly on smartphones—delivering fast, secure, and personalized AI experiences at the edge.
This launch marks the introduction of a comprehensive developer stack tailored for on-device AI, setting the stage for a future where intelligence lives alongside the user rather than in the cloud.
Addressing the Limitations of Cloud-Based AI
Despite AI’s growing role in digital experiences, most consumer applications have yet to evolve beyond cloud-tethered, chatbot-style interfaces. For AI to truly become personal and accessible, workloads must move closer to the source of data—on users’ phones, laptops, and edge devices. Cloud-based AI introduces critical drawbacks, including dependency on internet connectivity, increased latency, privacy concerns, and escalating infrastructure costs.
DeliteAI overcomes these challenges by bringing large language models (LLMs), multimodal models, and agentic AI capabilities directly onto user devices. This approach removes the need for roundtrips to the cloud or reliance on massive GPU infrastructure, enabling ultra-fast, privacy-first intelligence built on open standards. Developers now have the ability to deliver intelligent and secure experiences to billions of users globally—without sacrificing control, user trust, or budget efficiency.
Inside the DeliteAI Platform
DeliteAI is a full-stack, production-ready platform designed specifically for building on-device agentic AI applications. At launch, it includes several core components:
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DeliteAI SDK: A high-performance SDK equipped with an optimized on-device inference engine and the industry’s first Python runtime for orchestrating agentic workflows directly on mobile devices. Developers can dynamically update workflows and models via a pluggable SaaS backend, eliminating the need for repeated app releases.
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Agent Marketplace: A curated repository of prebuilt, plug-and-play AI agents for common tasks such as summarization, recommendations, and speech processing—empowering developers to quickly integrate intelligent capabilities.
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NimbleEdge AI Assistant: The first fully open-source, on-device conversational assistant with built-in productivity features, customizable for branded, native experiences.
Redefining AI-Native Development
DeliteAI introduces a developer-first paradigm for building AI-native applications, enabling full customization and control previously hindered by fragmented tooling and cloud dependency. Using the platform’s SDK, developers can run open models like Llama, Qwen, or Gemini Nano natively on both Android and iOS devices. They can also integrate proprietary LLMs or traditional machine learning models and execute agentic workflows using Python instead of limited DSLs or cloud-restricted runtimes.
To streamline development and deployment, DeliteAI abstracts the complexity of low-level hardware optimization, enabling performance tuning across diverse mobile chipsets without manual intervention. Developers are free to focus on building sophisticated, intelligent applications instead of managing AI infrastructure or ML operations.
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Proven at Scale, Now Open-Source
Though newly released to the open-source community, DeliteAI has already been proven in production environments. NimbleEdge has spent over two years building its on-device AI platform, which has powered AI and ML features across more than 30 million devices spanning gaming, e-commerce, and productivity apps.
The platform’s on-device Python runtime and SDK are fully compatible with industry-standard runtimes such as ONNX and ExecuTorch. By abstracting hardware differences, DeliteAI enables high-performance AI without user data ever leaving the device. It also supports deep enterprise-grade customization—organizations can deploy their own models, brand their assistants, and retain complete control over inference logic, user interaction, and data flow.
DeliteAI addresses the critical trifecta of performance, privacy, and accessibility, making it a compelling solution for developers building intelligent apps at global scale.
Open, Extensible, and Community-Driven
Designed with openness and extensibility at its core, DeliteAI reflects NimbleEdge’s deep commitment to collaborative development. The team behind the platform has also contributed to influential open-source communities like OpenMined and Istio.
Starting now, developers can:
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Access the full DeliteAI platform on GitHub
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Join NimbleEdge’s fast-growing Discord developer community
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Build and publish new agents through the Agent Marketplace
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Collaborate on enterprise-scale deployments
Backed by Neotribe Ventures and advised by leading experts from OpenAI, Inflection AI, and UC Berkeley, NimbleEdge’s open-source, on-device AI initiative represents a transformative shift in how AI is built, deployed, and experienced.
