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Qualcomm squeezes 30B model onto phones
Qualcomm has unveiled two new smartphone chips capable of running a 30B MoE model locally on smartphones.
#Qualcomm#Snapdragon#On-Device AI#Hardware#MoE
š„ What happened
Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6 at its Snapdragon Summit. The Extreme chip runs a 30-billion-parameter MoE model on-device, while the new sensing hub handles small models up to 200M parameters.
š” Why it matters
Apple's on-device MoE at WWDC topped out at 20B parameters ā Qualcomm just went 50 percent bigger and shipped it to Android flagships. Local voice-in/voice-out agents, speaker diarization, and personal memory now run without a cloud round-trip.
ā” Our take
The real flex isn't the NPU, it's the sensing hub: whoever owns the phone's always-on memory owns the agent. Apple should be nervous.
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