Qualcomm and Microsoft join hands to promote large-scale expansion of on-device AI at Microsoft Build developer conference

Latest update time：2023-05-24

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• Terminal-side generative AI solutions transfer query and reasoning to edge terminals such as PCs and mobile phones, allowing developers and cloud service providers to create more cost-effective, reliable and private generative AI.

• Qualcomm and Microsoft confirmed that they have reached a partnership to expand AI capabilities on a large scale for consumer and enterprise terminals, as well as industrial equipment, and bring industry-leading AI experience to users.

During the Microsoft Build 2023 developer conference, Qualcomm Technologies showcased the company’s latest on-device AI innovations, including generative AI running on the Snapdragon® computing platform and developers creating apps on Windows 11 PCs powered by the Snapdragon platform new path.

</p> <p style="margin: 0px 16px;font-size: 16px;text-align: center;line-height: normal;"> <span style='font-size: 12px;font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Hiragino Sans GB", "Microsoft YaHei", Arial, sans-serif;color: rgb(136, 136, 136);'> Running Stable Diffusion on Windows laptops powered by Snapdragon computing platform </span> <br/> </p> </div> <div powered-by="xiumi.us" style="font-size: 16px;margin-bottom: 0px;"> <div style="line-height: 2em;text-align: justify;margin: 0px 16px;text-indent: 0em;"> <br/> </div> <div style="line-height: 2em;text-align: justify;margin: 0px 16px;text-indent: 0em;"> <span style='font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Hiragino Sans GB", "Microsoft YaHei", Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;letter-spacing: 1px;color: rgb(74, 74, 74);'> Ziad Asghar, senior vice president of product management at Qualcomm Technologies, said: </span> </div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px;letter-spacing: 0px;white-space: normal;color: rgb(74, 74, 74);line-height: 2em;"> <div powered-by="xiumi.us" style="padding-right: 10px;padding-left: 10px;font-size: 16px;display: inline-block;width: 578.016px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px;border-style: solid;border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> <div powered-by="xiumi.us" style="padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-size: 15px;color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);line-height: 2;letter-spacing: 1px;"> <p> <span style='text-decoration-style: solid;text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Hiragino Sans GB", "Microsoft YaHei", Arial, sans-serif;'> In order for generative AI to be truly accepted and used by more people, many reasoning tasks need to be processed on edge terminals. We have industry-leading AI hardware and software that empower developers to make full use of our powerful AI capabilities to create stunning new user experiences on laptops, mobile phones and other terminals equipped with Snapdragon platforms. </span> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div powered-by="xiumi.us" style="margin-bottom: 0px;white-space: normal;font-size: 16px;"> <div style="margin: 0px 16px;line-height: 2em;"> <br/> </div> </div> <div style="line-height: 2em;text-align: justify;margin: 0px 16px;text-indent: 0em;font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-size: 15px;letter-spacing: 1px;text-indent: 0em;color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"> The future of AI requires both terminal-side AI and cloud AI. Running AI applications on the device side can improve cost-effectiveness, enhance privacy, personalization and reduce latency. Compared with only processing AI workloads on the CPU or GPU, the Snapdragon platform integrates a dedicated Qualcomm AI engine to process AI workloads more efficiently, allowing small and light devices to support terminal-side AI. </span> </div> <div style="line-height: 2em;text-align: justify;margin: 0px 16px;text-indent: 0em;font-size: 16px;"> <br/> </div> <p style="line-height: 2em;text-align: justify;margin: 0px 16px;text-indent: 0em;font-size: 16px;"> <span style="font-size: 15px;letter-spacing: 1px;text-indent: 0em;color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"> During Microsoft Build, Qualcomm Technologies will bring technology demos and bring tools to support the development of generative AI on next-generation Windows 11 PCs. Stable Diffusion is a generative AI model that generates </span> <span style="font-size: 15px;letter-spacing: 1px;text-indent: 0em;color: rgb(74, 74, 74);"> text images with more than 1 billion parameters. It can now be fully run on the terminal side. Qualcomm Technologies said that in the next few months, models with up to 10 billion parameters, including large language models (LLM), are expected to run on the terminal side. In order to enhance the Qualcomm AI software stack and help developers create next-generation device-side AI experiences, Qualcomm AI Engine Direct SDK will be launched to the public for the first time on Microsoft Build. With the help of ONNX Runtime and Qualcomm AI software stack, users can now run AI workloads on the AI engine on the third-generation Snapdragon 8cx platform when using the 5G version of Surface Pro 9 and Lenovo ThinkPad x13s. </span> </p> <p style="line-height: 2em;text-align: justify;margin: 0px 16px;text-indent: 0em;font-size: 16px;"> <br/> </p> <div powered-by="xiumi.us" style="margin-bottom: 0px;letter-spacing: 0.578px;white-space: normal;font-size: 16px;"> <div style="margin: 0px 16px 16px;line-height: 2em;text-indent: 0em;"> <span style='font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Hiragino Sans GB", "Microsoft YaHei", Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;letter-spacing: 1px;color: rgb(74, 74, 74);'> Pavan Davuluri, corporate vice president of Windows Chip and Systems Integration at Microsoft, said: </span> </div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0px;white-space: normal;letter-spacing: 0px;color: rgb(74, 74, 74);line-height: 2em;"> <div powered-by="xiumi.us" style="padding-right: 10px;padding-left: 10px;font-size: 16px;display: inline-block;width: 578.016px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 3px;border-style: solid;border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> <div powered-by="xiumi.us" style="padding-right: 15px;padding-left: 15px;font-size: 15px;color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);line-height: 2;letter-spacing: 1px;"> <p> <span style='text-decoration-style: solid;text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Hiragino Sans GB", "Microsoft YaHei", Arial, sans-serif;'> In order to expand AI across a wide range of devices and applications, both cloud and device-side processing are indispensable. 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Qualcomm Technologies will also demonstrate during the conference the significant performance improvements that can be achieved by natively compiling popular applications for the Snapdragon platform, and launch a new developer portal to facilitate centralized access to key tools required for Snapdragon notebook development from a unified entrance , resources and support.

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