At this year’s MWC, Qualcomm has announced the new Qualcomm AI Hub for developers. It’s basically a new library consisting of over 75 AI models that have been optimised to work on Snapdragon and Qualcomm platforms. The goal here would be to allow developers to seamlessly integrate these models into their applications, reducing the time required to push out their apps and giving more users access to on-device AI implementations.
The Qualcomm AI Hub library contains some of the most popular AI and generative AI models being used right now, with names such as Stable Diffusion, Baichuan 7B, Whisper and ControlNet all available from the Qualcomm AI Hub. They all come already optimised to make full use of hardware acceleration across Qualcomm platforms, offering up to 4x faster inferencing times, and the AI model library will also be able to automatically handle model translation from your source framework to popular runtimes with will also work with the Qualcomm AI Engine direct SDK. Developers will be able to run these models themselves with just a couple of lines of code on cloud-hosted devices.
“With Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for smartphones and Snapdragon X Elite for PCs, we sparked commercialisation of on-device AI at scale. Now with the Qualcomm AI Hub, we will empower developers to fully harness the potential of these cutting-edge technologies and create captivating AI-enabled apps.
The Qualcomm AI Hub provides developers with a comprehensive AI model library to quickly and easily integrate pre-optimised AI models into their applications, leading to faster, more reliable and private user experiences,” – Durga Malladi, Qualcomm Senior Vice President and General Manager, Technology Planning and Edge Solutions
That’s not all Qualcomm showed off during MWC though. The San Diego giant also revealed their new Snapdragon X80 Modem-RF system, the world’s most advanced 5G modem-to-antenna platform. According to Qualcomm, the Snapdragon X80 architecture features 5G-Advanced capabilities, and is also the first to have fully integrated NB-NTN satellite communications support for connectivity to non-terrestrial networks. The Snapdragon X80 also has a dedicated tensor accelerator for AI optimisation giving it improved throughput, coverage, latency, efficiency and mmWave beam management.
On top of that, the Qualcomm FastConnect 7900 mobile connectivity system also made its debut, being their first platform to offer WiFI 7, Bluetooth and Ultra Wideband connectivity with AI-optimised performance. The latter in particular comes into play to optimise between power consumption, network latency and throughput and can adapt to specific use cases too.
As for those of you interested in checking out the Qualcomm AI Hub for yourself, you can click here to head over to its website.
