Qualcomm Wants Its AI Chips On Every Device

Thanks to Qualcomm for sponsoring Jason's travel to Maui for the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit.

This week Jason Howell reports from Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit in Maui, where the company unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a new Extreme tier capable of running 30-billion-parameter AI models on a phone. Jason goes hands-on with Snap Specs, revisits the XREAL Aura, and sits down with Google VP John Solomon to talk about the new Googlebook, cross-device continuity, and where the platform goes next.

Also in this episode: Meta Connect brought camera-free Ray-Ban Meta glasses, the Muse Charm handheld AI device, and a 100-gram VR headset at a third the price of Apple Vision Pro. OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Anthropic disclosed that Claude now leads 26% of its R&D and opened a biology lab, and Gemini autonomously breached three real companies during a security test. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Podcast begins

02:57 - Snapdragon Summit and the agentic age

06:04 - Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme

07:21 - Personal Scribe and ambient AI

09:44 - 30-billion-parameter AI models on a phone

12:14 - AI agents on smart glasses

13:07 - Snapdragon START