At the Snapdragon Summit 2024 held today, Qualcomm officially unveiled the highly anticipated Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 mobile platform, a chip built on TSMC's advanced second-generation 3nm process technology, marking a new peak in performance for Android smartphone chips. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 features an entirely new core design, eliminating the small cores in favor of a full big-core layout, which includes 2 ultra-large cores with clock speeds reaching up to 4.32GHz and 6 large cores at 3.53GHz. This design sets a new historical record for smartphone processor clock speeds.

Meta released Llama3.2 at its annual Meta Connect 2024 conference, aiming to enhance the capabilities of edge AI and visual tasks. The newly launched Llama3.2 model includes medium visual models with 1.1 billion and 9 billion parameters, as well as small models with 100 million and 300 million parameters, specifically optimized for use on mobile devices, supporting Qualcomm and MediaTek hardware. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that these models will assist developers in achieving results without the need for large resources.

MianBi Intelligence has recently launched MiniCPM 3.0, a high-performance AI model that operates on devices with just 2GB of memory, heralding a new era of edge AI experience. The MiniCPM 3.0 model features 4 billion parameters and outperforms GPT-3.5, providing AI services on mobile devices comparable to those of GPT-3.5. This allows users to enjoy fast, secure, and feature-rich local AI services without relying on cloud processing, ensuring a smoother and more private intelligent interaction experience.

On September 2, 2024, Beijing Zhipu Technology Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Honor in Beijing to establish a joint laboratory for large AI model technology, marking a new stage in their collaboration in the field of artificial intelligence. Zhipu is committed to developing a new generation of cognitive intelligent large models, focusing on innovation in general-purpose AI foundation models. Honor is a leader in platform-level AI technology in the consumer electronics sector.

"MiniCPM-V2.6" is an edge-side multimodal artificial intelligence model that, with only 8B parameters, has achieved SOTA (State of the Art) results in single image, multiple images, and video understanding, all under 20B parameters, significantly enhancing edge AI's multimodal capabilities and being fully comparable to GPT-4V.

Researchers from the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge have recently made a significant breakthrough in the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. They have developed an advanced artificial intelligence tool that can predict the progression of Alzheimer's disease with an accuracy of 80%. This innovative approach aims to reduce reliance on invasive and expensive dementia diagnostic tests while also hoping to significantly improve treatment outcomes in the early stages of th

Zhao Ming stated that the competition in the PC industry is even more intense than that in smartphones. Honor aims to restructure the value chain of PCs, discovering that AI can enhance the overall operating efficiency of PCs, presenting significant potential after restructuring. Honor will use AI to solve cross-device service transfer issues, aiming to outperform Apple. Zhao Ming claimed that Honor leads the world in edge AI and will be capable of competing with Apple in the future.

In 2024, it is expected that the number of smartphones equipped with edge AI computing capabilities will reach 60 million units. Compared to PCs, smartphones have the advantage of being early adopters in the application of AI algorithms. The most basic requirement for an AI smartphone is that the SoC includes dedicated units to accelerate AI tasks. Unlike other products, the large number of smartphone users is beneficial for the promotion of AI applications. The strong portability and diverse applications of smartphones are conducive to innovative applications of edge AI.