Qualcomm just unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Gen 6, bringing on-device support for up to 30-billion-parameter AI models directly to smartphones. That is a massive jump from today's roughly 4B limit, designed to power seamless agentic workflows without relying on the cloud. Next year's Android flagships from Samsung, Xiaomi, and Motorola are already lined up to get them.
Xiaomi just open-sourced its MiMo-V2.6 multimodal series, led by MiMo-V2.6-Pro. The flagship model scored 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index to take the top spot among open-weight models, surpassing Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3. The release adds native computer-use capabilities, 3D spatial reasoning, and a desktop client.
Xiaomi just open-sourced MiMo-V2-Flash, a 309B MoE foundation model with 15B active parameters tailored for coding and reasoning. It ranks #1 among open-source models on SWE-bench Verified, pumps out 150 tokens per second, and costs just $0.1 per million input tokens. Why it matters: High-performance agentic coding is becoming dramatically faster and cheaper for everyday builders.
Qualcomm just unveiled the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, a processor designed to bring generative AI features like on-device translation to $500 to $600 smartphones. Xiaomi will debut the chip next month, trickling down features previously reserved for $800+ flagships.
