The race is on to bring generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to the smartphone in your pocket. And to judge by the speed at which the technology is advancing, we could see a transformation of mobile communications and computing much faster than what seemed possible just months ago. The launch of ChatGPT brought generative AI to widespread attention, but the prospect of bringing it to handsets seemed a distant hope. Besides training the so-called large language models (LLMs) behind such services, the work of inferencing — or running the models to produce results — is computational…