Wearables
4 updates on Wearables.
Pixel Watch 5 adds offline Gemini commands and faster on-device smart replies
Offline voice commands on the Pixel Watch 5 run on an on-device model, and a Gemini Nano upgrade makes smart replies 50 percent faster.
Qualcomm CEO says agents will become the new app, cites more than 40 device designs
Cristiano Amon tells CNBC that Qualcomm has over 40 designs for AI wearables and that smart glasses shipments could reach hundreds of millions a year.
Vijay Janapa Reddi argues edge generative AI needs models under 1B parameters
In ACM Queue, Vijay Janapa Reddi argues generative AI reaches edge devices only through small deployable models, with sub-1B ones the viable case.
Alibaba builds Qwen2's 0.5B and 1.5B sizes for phones, earphones and glasses
Alibaba built Qwen2-0.5B and Qwen2-1.5B for smartphones, earphones and smart glasses, with 32K context and Apache 2.0 weights.