Today Qualcomm is giving us a new demonstration of the power of its latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 by running Stable Diffusion 1.5, the latest version of Generative AI, natively on an unspecified smartphone. With “super cute fluffy cat warrior in armor, photorealistic, 4K, ultra-detail, vray rendering, unreal engine”, the smartphone was able to create an image in just 15 seconds.
The most interesting thing about all of this is that The AI here works locally on the smartphone. This means thatNo internet connection is concerned To be able to make use of it, as is the case these days where images are often generated on a remote server before displaying the result on the target device.
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The show is important because AI is quickly becoming a central argument for smartphones, the computing devices most used on a daily basis today. If tomorrow we had our own personal assistant powered by this technology, it would be more reassuring if it was stored locally: so it could work, whether or not an internet connection was established. , but also ensure that Our personal data remains stored on our devices.
The test provided by Qualcomm is also a good proof of the technological progress of mobile SoC companies. It should be noted that independent developer Ivon Huang has already managed to run Stable Diffusion natively on a smartphone with Snapdragon 865 processor and 8 GB of RAM, but his display took me an hour to generate the same type of image with the same definition i.e. 512 x 512 pixels.
by access This result is 15 seconds, the Snapdragon creator tends to stress that everyday use of AI-powered technologies is indeed possible. This short time is already acceptable for the least user if the experience is worth the effort.
For developers, this is also great news. This means that future entrepreneurs will not necessarily need Push server farm They are often too expensive to be able to offer their innovations to the general public.
All of this clearly remains a vision of the future, if only for the simple fact that this show takes place on the brand’s latest high-end SoC. Currently, out of a generation of digital images and sounds taken from content that already exists on the Internet, which is the focus of much controversy, or assistant search, which was quickly taken off default, artificial intelligence hasn’t really found its “killer application” yet. This use will really change consumer habits. While you wait, it’s Qualcomm’s tech developments that are most impressive.
