@MaximeRivest: what if: apple qualcomm google are the real ai companies of the future because we will have fable level ai in mobile? I…
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A tweet speculates that Apple, Qualcomm, and Google could become leading AI companies by focusing on portable, edge AI devices, referencing Google Gemma running on NVIDIA Jetson.
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apple qualcomm google
are the real ai companies of the future because we will have fable level ai in mobile?
If i had certainty this is possible, i would look like apple and google, i would not pursue scaling and race with openai anthropicand the others. i wouldmake things like gemma and good small portable gpu chips.
Google Gemma (@googlegemma): Gemma 4 E2B running fully locally on an 8GB NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano.
Using native image/audio input and function calling, this edge setup is capable of vision, voice interaction, and camera control, all within an 8GB memory footprint!
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