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Qualcomm went all out on artificial intelligence (AI) at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, United States. The US semiconductor entity previewed a large multi-modal AI model on Android phone and Windows PC, both powered by its Snapdragon platforms. It also displayed generative AI features on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3-powered devices from partners including Xiaomi, OPPO, and HONOR. Below are the details:
AI on Android phone
Qualcomm has previewed Large Language and Vision Assistant (LLaVA), a large multimodal model (LMM) of more than 7 billion parameters that can accept multiple types of data input, on an Android smartphone. Qualcomm said the model works with both text and images and that LMM works on the device to improve privacy, reliability, personalization and cost.
Besides LLaVa, Qualcomm demonstrated Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA) running Stable Diffusion on an Android smartphone. According to Qualcomm, LoRA would allow users to create high-quality personalized images based on their personal or artistic preferences. Since LoRA is a scaled-down version with fewer parameters of trainable AI models, it is expected to enable efficiency, scalability, and personalization of generative AI use cases on the device.
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Qualcomm AI at MWC 2024
AI on Windows PC
Qualcomm previewed a Windows PC powered by the Snapdragon several turns. Qualcomm said the Snapdragon
Generative AI
Qualcomm has introduced a range of flagship commercial AI smartphones powered by Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, including the HONOR Magic6 Pro, OPPO X7 Ultra and Xiaomi 14 Pro. On these devices, it previewed generative AI features such as AI-generated image expansion (Xiaomi), AI-powered video creation and calendar creation (HONOR) and Image Object Eraser (OPPO). He also showed off Humane’s AI Pin, powered by the Snapdragon platform, which gives users the ability to take AI with them anywhere in an all-new conversational, screen-free form factor.
First publication: February 26, 2024 | 12:32 p.m. STI
