On October 22, 2024, Qualcomm unveiled its new flagship mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, at the Snapdragon Technology Summit. This chip is manufactured using TSMC's second-generation 3nm process and features Qualcomm's self-developed Oryon CPU architecture, achieving a dual enhancement in performance and energy efficiency. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is Qualcomm's first mobile platform to adopt an all-large core design, eliminating the previous mix of big and little cores. The CPU consists of two super cores with a frequency of up to 4.32GHz and six cores running at 3.53GHz.

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.

Snapchat recently announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, focusing on enhancing the generative AI capabilities of Snapchat's My AI chatbot. Through this collaboration, My AI will be able to leverage the multimodal capabilities of Google's Gemini AI to understand and process a variety of information, including text, audio, images, and video. At Snap's annual partner summit, Snapchat showcased Gemini-powered features.

At the intersection of technology and creativity, Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has once again showcased its innovative prowess. During the Snap Partner Summit held recently in Santa Monica, California, the company announced a series of exciting AI tool upgrades aimed at providing creators with a more powerful and intuitive content creation experience. The most notable new feature is 'Easy Lens.' This innovative tool allows creators to easily generate Snap's unique augmented reality (AR) objects, 3D effects, and characters through simple English descriptions.

At the recently concluded Snap Partner Summit, Snap (the parent company of Snapchat) unveiled an exciting new feature - 'Easy Lens'. This feature is fantastic as it can transform users' simple English descriptions into Snap's augmented reality (AR) lenses. Simply enter your desired effect in Snap's developer platform, Lens Studio, and Easy Lens will automatically generate it for you using generative AI models.

The police in New Mexico, USA, used AI-generated images of a virtual 14-year-old girl to lure sexual offenders, aiming to investigate the protection of children from sexual exploitation on the Snapchat platform. This method has sparked discussions on ethics, legality, and AI ethics, particularly regarding the legality of AI-generated images, privacy rights, and consent issues. Legal experts point out that creating and using deepfake child sexual abuse material is illegal and concerning. Moreover, the requirement for real children's images as training datasets for AI-generated images raises concerns about children.

In Q2 2024, global AI PC shipments reached 8.8 million units, accounting for 14% of total PC shipments, showcasing rapid market growth. AI PCs include desktops and laptops equipped with advanced chipsets, such as NPUs. The Qualcomm Snapdragon X series chips and Copilot+PC signify a new stage in AI PC development. It is expected that shipments will significantly increase in the second half of the year, with total shipments for 2024 projected to reach 44 million units, and it is anticipated to exceed 100 million units by 2025. Apple leads the AI PC market with its Mac products.

Snap and Meta are set to unveil their latest AR glasses prototypes next month, with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel releasing the fifth-generation Spectacles on September 17, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg showcasing the AR glasses codenamed Orion on September 25. However, due to the current immaturity of AR technology, neither pair of glasses will be available for public sale. Snap will distribute a small production run through partners and developers.

Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 7s Gen3 processor is designed to bring powerful AI capabilities to mid-range smartphones. It supports advanced language models such as Baichuan-7B and Llama2, with notable performance improvements: CPU, GPU, and AI performance enhanced by 20%, 40%, and 30%, respectively, while power consumption is reduced by 12%. This processor will be deployed in new devices by brands like Realme, Samsung, Sharp, and Xiaomi, marking a new upgrade in performance and AI applications in the mid-range smartphone market.

After years of industry downturn, Lenovo has achieved profit growth for the second consecutive quarter by seizing opportunities in artificial intelligence. The company's net profit reached $243 million, a 38% year-over-year increase, far exceeding analysts' expectations. Total revenue grew to $15.45 billion, a 20% increase. This growth was mainly attributed to strong performance in the computing, infrastructure, and services sectors. Lenovo also achieved 'market-outperforming growth' by launching AI-powered PCs and smart devices, as well as expanding in the AI infrastructure sector.

In the digital media era, video has become our primary means of self-expression and storytelling. However, creating high-quality videos typically requires professional skills and expensive equipment. Now, with Snap Video, you can automatically generate videos just by describing the scene you want in text.The current image generation models have already demonstrated excellent quality and diversity. Inspired by this, researchers have begun to apply these models to video generation. However, the hi

Snapchat has showcased its upcoming device-integrated AI model, which can alter the user's surrounding environment using augmented reality (AR) based on text prompts.

The model is small enough to run on smartphones and fast enough to render frames in real-time based on text prompts. He noted that while the emergence of generative AI image diffusion models is exciting, these models need a significant speed increase to have a major impact on augmented reality. Therefore, Snap's team has been dedicated to accelerating machine learning models.

["Meizu 21 PRO will be released on February 29, featuring the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, 2K screen, and supporting 80W fast charging.","In terms of AI technology, Meizu 21 PRO is expected to compete with rivals such as Xiaomi 14 Ultra and Huawei Pocket 2.","In imaging technology, it is expected to use the OmniVision OV50H sensor, supporting 8K video recording.","Meizu will transition into the AI field, aiming to develop products such as AI large models, AI chips, and AI cloud services in the future."]

The AI-RAN Alliance has been established to integrate artificial intelligence with wireless communication technology. Qualcomm has unveiled the Snapdragon X80 flagship 5G modem, enhancing data transmission speeds and coverage. There are three working groups focused on technological research: AI for RAN, AI and RAN, and AI on RAN. Qualcomm is providing samples of the X80 5G modem to partners, with commercial devices expected to launch in the second half of 2024.

The Huawei Cloud CodeArts Snap Intelligent Development Assistant officially launches its public beta. CodeArts Snap is a software development tool based on the Pangu large model, providing three core capabilities: intelligent generation, intelligent Q&A, and intelligent collaboration. Huawei Cloud CodeArts Snap can help developers improve efficiency in various development scenarios such as requirement management analysis, new code development, existing code optimization, code quality monitoring, and convenient application deployment.

Snapchat Plus members can create and send images using the AI-generated image feature based on text prompts. Users can click the 'AI' button on the right side of the camera interface to select text prompts or predefined options, such as 'Future Disco' or 'Rocket Ready for Launch.' The new AI features include filling in backgrounds with AI to make the subjects of the photos appear farther from the camera, and adding theme transformations to photos via the 'Dreams' feature. Snapchat Plus members can receive one free package containing eight 'Dreams' per month.

Snap has released the latest version of Lens Studio 5.0 Beta, introducing AI functionalities to enhance AR development efficiency. In collaboration with OpenAI, developers can use ChatGPT to create new experiences for Snapchat users. The new AI features in Lens Studio 5.0 Beta include a 3D facial mask generator. Improved productivity allows developers to create more complex AR projects. An updated Lens Creator Rewards program supports AR creation.