Qualcomm’s AI models are now available to all app developers
Qualcomm made its full library of artificial intelligence (AI) models showcased in its AI Hub available to developers on Saturday. The move will allow app developers to download, run and implement the AI capabilities of these models within their app experiences or build new apps on top of them. The company noted that all of the AI models are optimized for devices powered by its AI-enabled Snapdragon X Elite series system-on-chipset. The company notably launched the AI chipset series in April.
Qualcomm makes its AI models available to developers
In a after On X (formerly known as Twitter), Qualcomm’s official handle, stated that it has made the computational models on Qualcomm AI available to all developers. Notably, the AI models are accessible via the company’s AI hub.
The Qualcomm AI Hub website displays 94 computational models distributed across different capabilities. There are models for audio enhancement and speech recognition, text and image generation, as well as multimodal capabilities such as image classification and image-to-text generation.
Qualcomm AI Hub website
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Furthermore, there are various AI models for different computer vision related functions. These include depth estimation, image classification, image editing, object detection, pose estimation, semantic segmentation and more. Notably, most of these are open-source AI models, which have been refined and optimized by Qualcomm to run efficiently on its Elite X-series processors.
While the AI Hub lists all the computational models that developers can download and run, the model weights are hosted on GitHub and Hugging Face. The AI Hub also shares the research paper of the model, as well as basic details such as model size, number of parameters, and applicable scenarios.
The website also lists the inference time, memory usage, and NPU layers used while running the device on devices with Snapdragon X Elite chipsets. All AI models come with a deployable AI Model Hub license that allows developers to build apps using these licenses.
Qualcomm’s move is believed to be aimed at creating an AI-powered app ecosystem that performs best in conjunction with its processor. The existence of the ecosystem could prompt more laptop and PC brands to push for Snapdragon X Elite chipsets for their AI PCs.
