Qualcomm Opens Up Its AI Model Library to Developers for Enhanced On-Device AI Experiences

On Saturday, Qualcomm opened up its whole collection of AI models, which are used in its AI center, to developers. With this change, creators of apps can now download, use, and implement these models' AI capabilities directly into their apps or use them as the foundation for entirely new apps. The business emphasised that every AI model has been tailored for use with its AI-capable Snapdragon X Elite series system-on-a-chipset. Notably, in April, the business introduced its AI chipset line.

Qualcomm provides developers with access to its AI models

The official Qualcomm account announced on X (formerly known as Twitter) that all developers may now use the compute models on Qualcomm AI. Interestingly, the company's AI center provides access to the AI models.

There are ninety-four compute models listed on the Qualcomm AI hub website, categorized by various features. In addition to text and picture generation, there are models for voice recognition, audio augmentation, and multimodal functions including image categorization and image-to-text generation.

Additionally, several AI models are available for different tasks connected to computer vision. These include of object identification, pose estimation, semantic segmentation, object classification, depth estimation, image editing, and more. Interestingly, Qualcomm has optimized and fine-tuned the majority of these open-source AI models to work well on its Elite X series processors.

Hugging Face and GitHub hold the model weights, while the AI hub provides a list of all the compute models that developers may download and use. The model's research paper and other fundamental information, such the model's size, number of parameters, and relevant scenarios, are also shared by the AI hub.

On handsets with Snapdragon X Elite chipsets, the website also details the inference time, memory use, and NPU layers used during operation. Developers can use the deployable AI Model Hub Licence that is included with every AI model to create apps.

It is thought that Qualcomm is taking this action to build an ecosystem of AI-powered apps that work best when paired with its CPU. The ecosystem's existence may encourage more laptop and PC manufacturers to design AI PCs with Snapdragon X Elite chipsets.