Leaked specs for the next big Snapdragon chip: The case of the S24 (Pixel) line and GOOGLE over QUALCOMM

The next big Snapdragon chip headed to Android phones is likely to be announced this week — and details have leaked early revealing a heavy focus on AI. According to the report, the upcoming chips will support a variety of camera tools, including the ability to remove objects from videos and expand areas of a photo.

This chip is headed for the S24) line, which is anticipated in the first quarter of next year. The company’s flagship chip will appear in other top-of-the-line phones throughout the year, with the exception of thePixel line which uses the company’s own Tensor processors. The ability of the Tensor chips to develop custom features is a key reason why the company chose to go with GOOGLE over QUALCOMM.

You can read the whole sheet of leaked specs atMSPoweruser. The chip should be announced tomorrow at the summit. The company is hosting an event starting October 24th at 3AM ET / 12AM PT.

Openai, Stable Diffusion and Seamless: a platform for sharing photos, videos, and audio with other devices and how they can be connected

The 8 Gen 3 can accept text, images and voice input, and it was trained on Meta’s Llama 2. It can also talk back to you as well as generate an image or text. The chipset also runs the AI image generator Stable Diffusion on-device, something that Qualcomm demoed earlier this year. The previous tech was able to generate an image in about 15 seconds, but this time it can generate an image in less than a second.

This is housed in a tech company calledQUALix, which uses a neural processor. Openai has a speech recognition system that the Sensing Hub uses. The Sensing Hub also supplies the AI engine with information about the user, including location, for more personalized responses. It’ll even relay your favorite activities, age, and “fitness level,” which sounds slightly dystopian if you ask me.

There’s also a feature called Vlogger’s View that will layer video from the selfie and rear cameras together into one view. The feature uses more advanced image classification to make the video look like you are standing in front of the camera.

The misuse of these tools is a reason to be concerned and that’s whatQualcomm is trying to stop. The tech it is using is compliant with a standard known as the Coalition for Content Provenance, which is a framework for guaranteeing the authenticity of photos and videos. It cryptographically binds authentication to the digital asset — like a photo or video — so that it can’t be tampered with as easily as EXIF data can.

There’s also a new system called Snapdragon Seamless, which is designed to make it easy to pair laptops and phones with peripherals across manufacturers and OS platforms. Qualcomm says this will enable easier switching between devices — like switching to audio to your PC for a video call and back to music playing on your phone, for example.

This is intended to get both devices to talk to each other easier, at least at launch. The platform is open and anyone can join, but initially it will only be accessible by a limited group of partners. Every garden has to start somewhere — even an open one.