New Delhi: At the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm Technologies announced a partnership with Mistral AI for consumer devices and automotive applications. Mistral’s Minsitral 3B and Ministral 8B models will be on devices powered by the Spandragon 8 Elite Mobile Platform, the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Ride Elite developed for the automotive sector, and the Snapdragon X Series of compute platforms for AI PCs. The commercial AI models have been designed specifically for on-device use, offering reliable speeds, lower latency, cost savings and improved privacy. Using AI locally on-device is also more energy efficient than running the applications on the cloud, making the approach more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Senior vice president and general manager of technology for planning and edge solutions at Qualcomm Technologies, Durga Malladi said, “We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Mistral AI to help achieve our goal of empowering devices at the edge with the latest advancements in AI technology. Mistral AI’s Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B will enable device manufacturers, software vendors, and digital service providers to deliver innovative experiences, such as AI assistants and other applications that understand users’ wants and needs, thanks to the immediacy, reliability, and enhanced privacy of on-device AI.”
Qualcomm AI Hub
The Qualcomm AI Hub is a platform or ecosystem for on-device AI, where the chip manufacturer is working closely to optimise the AI models from a number of companies, including Mistral, IBM, Amazon and Tech Mahindra. The same platform offers models across mobile, compute, automotive and IoT applications. The platform provides models aimed at specific chipsets across audio, computer vision, generative AI and multimodal use cases. Qualcomm is working closely with Mistral to bring the Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B models to the Qualcomm AI Hub. The AI Hub already offers developers access to popular AI models from Mistral including Mistral7B v0.3.
