Notes from the camera-AI trenches.

Engineering deep-dives, product thinking and tutorials from the team building Nosmai Effects and Moderation.

Why we run AR and AI on the device, not the cloud

Round-trips kill real-time experiences and pile up cloud bills. Here is how Nosmai keeps frames on the phone, and why that is better for latency, privacy and your margins.

Maya Chen

Jun 4, 2026 · 7 min

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Engineering

How Nosmai Effects hits 60fps on mid-range phones

A look at the GPU pipeline, the filter graph, and the tricks that keep beauty and AR smooth on hardware from three years ago.

Priya Nair

May 19, 2026 · 8 min

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Product

On-device moderation: privacy and cost, solved together

Why scanning user content on the phone, instead of a cloud service, fixes two problems at once.

Daniel Park

May 9, 2026 · 4 min

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