Iran Press/ Sci & Tech: Qualcomm is the first mobile silicon developer to take a significant step forward in allowing powerful Generative AI models to run locally on phones. Its new Snapdragon chips aim to transition generative AI capabilities, such as those found in ChatGPT and Midjourney, from desktops to mobile devices.
Since the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, introduced in 2022, Qualcomm's aspiration is clear: transform mobile devices into AI powerhouses, offering many benefits that promise to alter the mobile experience entirely. The full scope of this vision will be detailed at the upcoming Qualcomm Summit this October, Forbes reported.
The advantages of on-device AI are extensive. At the very least, this approach promises:
1. Enhanced Personalization: Tailoring experiences using data like driving patterns, photos, and restaurant searches.
2. Augmented Privacy: User data stays on the device, reducing risks of external breaches.
3. Rapid Response: No reliance on cloud-based systems, ensuring instantaneous AI-generated responses by cutting out network latency.
4. Optimized Battery Life: Reducing the need to communicate with remote servers, thus extending battery life.
5. Improved Network Efficiency: Local processing limits data transfer, easing network congestion and ensuring a better experience for all cell phone network users.
6. Economic Benefits: Maintaining large servers for complex machine learning models is tremendously costly. By contrast, on-device AI could be more cost-effective because the computation will be decentralized and distributed.
7. Offline Capabilities: Devices can function efficiently without constant internet connectivity, including on aircraft, in locations with spotty or slow coverage.
8. Adaptability: Learning from users in real-time to evolve and refine recommendations. Phones will be able to maintain local databases of user responses and actions that will be leveraged by local AI and optimize the user experience.
9. Seamless Integration: Unifying various apps and functions for a cohesive user experience.
At the Mobile World Congress in February, attendees witnessed the potential of Qualcomm's on-device generative AI. Demonstrations ranged from real-time image modifications to multi-model interactions, indicating an impending sea-change in mobile device capabilities.
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