We’re gonna talk about something big, like, a trillion-dollar-industry big. For the past decade, all the smartest tech has lived in massive server farms and data centers, chewing through power and money just to keep up. The deal was simple, your data goes up to the cloud, the cloud does the work, and you wait. But that setup? It’s starting to crack.
That’s what “The Great Deflation” is all about, this massive shift where local performance and smarter devices start taking the cloud’s job and doing it better. And it’s not just happening in data centers; it’s in your hand every time you unlock your phone.
Leading that charge is the iPhone 17 Pro, thanks to Apple’s new A19 Pro chip. It brings the same on-device intelligence Apple introduced with its M5 chip for Macs and iPads, but in a form that fits in your pocket.
How the A17 Pro Started It All
For years, AI’s mantra was “bigger is better.” The smarter you wanted your AI to be, the more servers, GPUs, and power you needed. The tech world raced to build data centers the size of small cities, assuming AI would always need massive infrastructure to work.
Then Apple changed the game.
It started two years ago with the A17 Pro chip in the iPhone 15 Pro line. It wasn’t just a performance boost; it was a sign that Apple was rethinking how intelligence itself should work. Built on a 3-nanometer process, the A17 Pro held nearly 19 billion transistors and could perform 35 trillion operations per second through its 16-core Neural Engine. That’s the kind of capability that once needed a building full of GPUs.
Suddenly, your phone could recognize photos, transcribe speech, and translate languages entirely on its own, no cloud calls, no lag, no waiting for data to bounce around the world. That’s when mobile intelligence stopped being theory and became real. The A17 Pro didn’t just make devices faster; it made them independent, giving people back control over speed, privacy, and performance.
At Savva, we’re seeing the same kind of shift happening in health too. The idea of “local intelligence” doesn’t just apply to Apple’s A17 or A19 chips, it’s becoming a new way to think about personal care. Even on older iPhones like the 12, Savva’s AI can process your health information safely and directly. Instead of sending your heart rate, prescriptions, or blood pressure data to a server, the AI on your phone can handle it right there with you. It’s faster, more private, and doesn’t leave a trail of your data floating around online.
Enter the A19 Pro: When Intelligence Gets Personal
Fast-forward to the iPhone 17 Pro, and Apple’s new A19 Pro chip takes everything the A17 started and makes it smarter, faster, and far more personal. Apple’s new Neural Matrix Cluster doubles AI performance to 60 trillion operations per second while using less power. The CPU predicts faster, the neural cores run full-scale models offline, and your phone doesn’t just follow commands anymore; it understands context and adapts in real time.
It’s the same philosophy behind Apple’s M5 chip for Macs and iPads, keeping intelligence with the user, not locked away in a cloud. With the A19 Pro, tasks that once required huge servers now happen instantly, like editing 4K video, generating summaries, or running Siri’s AI completely offline.
And this kind of intelligence is exactly what makes apps like Savva possible. Savva uses the same kind of on-device AI capability to take your fitness tracker readings, medical records, and health history and turn them into simple, personalized health summaries that actually make sense.
No vague “maybe” answers, no waiting for a cloud server to process your information, just accurate insights about your health. It doesn’t even need an internet connection to work; it runs quietly in the background, even in airplane mode, tracking your health throughout the day and giving you a clear daily summary of how you’re doing.
M5 and A19 Pro: The Same Vision at Different Scales
The M5, designed for Macs and iPads, handles heavy creative and technical workloads, AI training, rendering, multitasking, all within a unified CPU–GPU–Neural structure. It’s built for professionals who once depended on remote compute power.
The A19 Pro condenses that same philosophy into a phone. Together, they mark Apple’s full shift toward what we might call “The Great Deflation,” a world where we don’t rent intelligence from the cloud anymore; we own it.
For health, that shift is massive. Savva follows the same principle, giving users complete control over their data and insights, private, secure, and fast. It’s not about outsourcing intelligence; it’s about bringing it home.
When Your Devices Start Working Together
This shift isn’t happening in isolation, it’s bringing in a whole new wave of agentic intelligence where AI systems talk to each other and actually work together to get things done.
That idea is already starting to take shape across Apple’s ecosystem.
Imagine this: your iPhone analyzes your sleep trends overnight. Your watch follows up with your heart rate data. Your iPad turns it into a daily health summary and suggests a morning routine tailored to how well you’ve recovered. Savva is built on the same idea, a seamless, intelligent network that understands you as a whole person. It connects your health data across various devices, like Oura, Apple Health, Whoop, Fitbit and others, working together to give you accurate, real-time insights without sending your information halfway around the world for processing.
It might sound futuristic, but it’s already happening, powered by the same chips driving today’s mobile AI revolution.
Privacy Is the New Trust
This new era of on-device intelligence quietly fixes one of technology’s biggest problems: trust. When your data stays on your device, there’s far less risk of it being exposed or misused. It’s privacy by design, not an add-on, but the foundation of how modern AI should work.
That’s exactly the approach we take at Savva. We don’t pull your health data into external servers. Instead, we give you insights right where you are, on your phone, under your control. It’s an approach that aligns not only with global standards like the EU AI Act and GDPR, but also with what people actually want from technology: safety, privacy, and confidence.
At the end of the day, people don’t just want AI to be smart, they want it to be trustworthy.
Conclusion: The Personal Revolution Has Already Started
If you zoom out, the story here isn’t just about Apple’s chips or Savva’s AI. It’s about the direction the entire industry is heading. We’ve gone from mainframes to PCs, from PCs to the cloud, and now from the cloud back to our pockets. Each step has brought intelligence closer to us, smaller, smarter, and more human.
With Apple’s A19 Pro pushing AI into the hands of everyday users, and Savva putting that power to work in personal healthcare, we’re watching the next big shift unfold, not in the cloud, but right where it matters most: with you.
That’s the real “Great Deflation.” Not just in economics, but in distance. The space between people and their technology is collapsing, and that’s exactly where the most human version of AI is beginning to take shape.
