We had Daniel and Anders on the podcast to talk about the how and why of the native port if anyone is looking for an in-depth discussion → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGza4oIleY
Some of the models are quite small and worth doing on-device vs the opposite of sending all the data to the server to process. The other huge benefit here is that transformers run in node.js and getting things running is way easier than trying to get some odd combination of python snd its dependencies to work