Qualcomm chips boost AI agents, 30B parameter models
qualcomm launches snapdragon 8 elite gen 6 and extreme gen 6 chips with ai-focused features for better personalization and model efficiency. this affects smartphone users and ai developers.
qualcomm launched two new smartphone chips, snapdragon 8 elite gen 6 and snapdragon 8 elite extreme gen 6, with an emphasis on facilitating ai-focused features. the chips have new sensing hubs that can run small models of up to 200 million parameters and support a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model locally. the extreme version can run a complete voice-in and voice-out agent and support video recording at 8k60fps and 4k240. this affects smartphone users and ai developers, enabling improved personalization and model efficiency for ai agents.