At the 2026 Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm and PrismML ran a 2-billion-parameter 1-bit quantized Bonsai vision model locally on the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 smart glasses platform.
On September 24, Qualcomm unveiled the second-generation Snapdragon Audio Platform at the 2026 Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, describing it as its first audio platform to combine premium audio, voice technology, on-device intelligence, and connectivity. The platform integrates Snapdragon Sound, on-device AI, and ultra-low-power Wi-Fi 6E, with peak AI compute of 128 GOPS, double the previous generation, while power consumption is reduced by 40% and size by 30%. It supports multiple form factors including earbuds, over-ear headphones, and audio glasses.
At the 2026 Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said the agent era has arrived, with inference and edge computing playing key roles, and positioned Snapdragon as a processor for this era. He described ideal agent experiences as personalized, proactive, responsive, trustworthy and effortless, requiring seamless coordination across phones, PCs, cars, glasses and other devices.