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title: AI on flights
date: 2026-06-18T10:35:32+05:30
categories:
    - llms
description: I use Google Edge Gallery with Gemma-4-E2B-it to run LLMs locally on flights. It serves as a handy offline reference for identifying objects, defining niche terms, and brainstorming ideas when internet is unavailable.
keywords: [google edge gallery, gemma-4-e2b-it, offline llm, on-device ai, mobile inference, travel tech]
---

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I **love** that I get uninterrupted 4-16 hours on flights, which I mostly use to write future prompts and read past AI responses.

I _do_ miss AI on flights. But after installing [Google Edge Gallery](https://github.com/google-ai-edge/gallery) with Gemma-4-E2B-it (2.5GB) that runs on my mobile, I've solved a few practical problems.

For example:

- I took a picture of a dish they served and asked: "Is this vegetarian?" (It was.)
- I asked, "Comics have text in panels, often written at the top in a box. Not the speech bubbles. It's like a narrator or voice over. What are they called?" (Caption boxes.)
- "Summarize The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Why is it famous?" (Thoughtful, well-written novel on the choice vs commitment tradeoff.)

It's not a very smart model. It's a bit slow. Transcription is average. It doesn't run in the background. Only one chat at a time. No internet search, etc.

But it's a good **reference** to have. Almost a Wikipedia I can talk to.\
It's a good **ideator** to have. I can brainstorm. (Hallucination is a feature, not bug.)

I'm sure I'll find more uses.