Qualcomm was able to adapt the image creation capabilities of Stable Diffusion to a single Android smartphone powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC device. It is a remarkable result which, according to the San Diego-based company, is just the beginning for AI applications managed on edge computing devices. No internet connection is required, Qualcomm assures.
As explained on Qualcomm’s corporate blog, Stable Diffusion is a large foundation model employing a neural network trained on a vast quantity of data at scale. The text-to-image generative AI contains one billion parameters, and it has mostly been “confined” in the cloud (or on a traditional x86 computer equipped with a recent GPU).
