Vinesh Sukumar, VP of Product Management, AI / Gen AI at Qualcomm Technologies, discusses the transition from cloud AI to distributed edge intelligence and the future of AI
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Vinesh Sukumar, VP of Product Management, AI / Gen AI at Qualcomm Technologies, discusses the transition from cloud AI to distributed edge intelligence and the future of AI
AI is shifting from cloudbased models to embedded systems, and the next phase of AI could be defined by on-device intelligence, agent-driven systems and synthetic data generation.
The next evolution of AI is agentic: AI systems that continuously reason, act and adapt in real time, driving sustained demand for token generation.
AI must be distributed across device, edge, cloud and data centre to optimise cost, performance, power and latency as workloads become continuous.
As AI moves beyond traditional cloudbased models, companies are rethinking how intelligence is embedded onto devices, applications and user interfaces.
Generative and agentic AI can enable more personalised and context- aware digital experiences, while maintaining strict standards around privacy and security.
Vinesh Sukumar, Vice President of Product Management, AI / Gen AI at Qualcomm Technologies, says:“ There’ s a fundamental shift underway from using big models to cloud-only AI inference to smaller models, driving towards distributed AI that runs directly on devices.
“ This is being driven by the need for real-time responsiveness, increasing qualcomm. com 5