Qualcomm on Saturday made its entire library of artificial intelligence (AI) models featured in its AI Hub available to developers. With this move, app developers can 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 AI models are optimized for devices powered by its AI-enabled Snapdragon X Elite series chipset. Namely, the company launched a series of AI chipsets in April.
Qualcomm makes its AI models available to developers
In a post on Xu (formerly known as Twitter), an official Qualcomm executive stated that he has made computer models on Qualcomm’s artificial intelligence available to all developers. Namely, AI models can be accessed through the company’s AI hub.
The Qualcomm AI hub website lists 94 computer models divided by 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 different artificial intelligence models for different functions related to computer vision. These include depth estimation, image classification, image editing, object detection, pose estimation, semantic segmentation and more. Notably, most of these AI models are open source, fine-tuned 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 on GitHub and Hugging Face. The AI hub also shares model research work as well as basic details such as model size, number of parameters and applicable scenarios.
The website also mentions the inference time, memory usage, and NPU layers used during boot on devices running the Snapdragon X Elite chipsets. All AI models come with a deployable AI Model Hub license that allows developers to build apps using them.
Qualcomm’s move is believed to be aimed at creating an AI-powered app ecosystem that performs best when used with its processor. The existence of the ecosystem could encourage more laptop and PC brands to push Snapdragon X Elite chipsets for their AI PCs.
