Amon: Real-time contextual AI cannot run entirely in the cloud
Cristiano Amon · Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon: Future Of AI Devices, AI Fashion, Blending Reality and Computing · Jan 20, 2026 · at 26:29
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon explains why real-time AI assistants require edge silicon and on-device processing rather than purely cloud computing.
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“You cannot do everything on the cloud because of also latency. It is not going to be useful for you. If I go back to when you asked me to describe the experience, if you and I are walking together in the street, and I'm gonna say, hey, who's this person? And you say, this is so-and-so. The answer, you can say, hold on, let me think, let's keep walking, I've been thinking about it, and then the person went by, you missed the point. And I think you're gonna have to have certain things you need to do on the device, it needs to be fast.”
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