# Federated learning: models come to the data, users keep control

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-08-02
- **Theme:** Local AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-ai/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri, Marko Stokic, Michael Heinrich & Luki Song on Can User-Owned AI Compete with Big Tech? (Nebular)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:24 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEi1i2c12E&t=264s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-ai/2024-08-02-federated-learning-models-come-to-the-data-users-k-r5xa/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Federated learning: models come to the data, users keep control," Greg Osuri, Marko Stokic, Michael Heinrich & Luki Song on Can User-Owned AI Compete with Big Tech? (Nebular), 2 Aug 2024, 00:04:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEi1i2c12E&t=264s

## Quote — verbatim

> Federated learning is a mechanism where models can be trained locally without giving access to the data and still be federated at a higher level. Now user owns the data — you're not giving up the data... Just because a model is running on iPhone, it's not running on the cloud — it's still running locally, you still have access and full control of it.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked how decentralized networks compete with Apple/Samsung on-device AI; he adds any technology extracting user data in 2024 faces "a PR disaster."