The AI industry has mostly measured progress by size: more parameters, more data centres, more compute. That makes sense for a frontier lab. It makes less sense for a pair of glasses that has to answer a simple question: what am I looking at right now?

PrismML is building for the second case. The AI lab was founded by researchers from Caltech and counts UC Berkeley's Ion Stoica among its advisers. It has now produced a version of its compact language models for smart glasses that run on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips.

From the data centre to the frame: what Qualcomm showed at Snapdragon Summit

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