Hugging Face's new iOS app taps AI to describe what you're looking at

AI startup Hugging Face has released a new app for iOS that only does one thing: uses offline, local AI to describe what's in view of your iPhone's camera. The app, called HuggingSnap, taps Hugging Face's in-house vision model, smolvlm2, to analyze what your phone sees in real-time without sending data off to the cloud. Point your camera and ask a question or request a description, and HuggingSnap will identify objects, explain scenes, read text, and generally try to make sense of what you're lo