The next big chip from the company has been leaked and is full of artificial intelligence

The Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit Leaked Spectroscopy: Generative AI, Night Modes, and Expansion Support for Pixel 8 Gen 3

Generative AI also plays a major role in the 8 Gen 3’s new image processing capabilities. It will support generative fill for image expansion so you can zoom out and re-crop photos — again, right on the device. The video features are even wilder, for example, there is an object eraser for video and just tap the object to disappear it. — and on-device night mode recording at up to 4K / 30p. Google announced its own Night Sight for video feature coming to the Pixel 8 Pro in the near future, but it will run in the cloud.

It is likely that the first chip headed for the S line will be this one. As Qualcomm’s flagship mobile chip, it’ll appear in other top-of-the-line Android phones throughout the year, with the notable exception of Google’s Pixel line, which relies on the company’s own Tensor processors. Since it is important for the company to develop custom features with its chips, a key reason why the company decided to switch is because of the emphasis on artificial intelligence by Qualcomm.

You can view the whole sheet of leaked specs at MSPoweruser. Qualcomm should officially announce the chip tomorrow at its Snapdragon Summit. The company is hosting an event starting October 24th at 3AM ET / 12AM PT.

The Qualcomm 8 Gen 3 Embedded AI Engine and Sensing Hub: Connecting Laptops and Windows Devices to Make Life More Authentic

The 8 Gen 3 supports a chatbot which can accept text, images, and voice input. It can also talk back to you as well as generate an image or text. The chipset also runs the AI image generator Stable Diffusion on-device, something that Qualcomm demoed earlier this year. This time around, the company says it can generate an image in less than one second — the previous tech generated an image in about 15 seconds, which is still faster than the couple of minutes it can take on even a well-equipped laptop.

All of this is housed in what Qualcomm calls its AI engine, utilizing the company’s Hexagon neural processor. Meanwhile, the Sensing Hub uses OpenAI’s Whisper for speech recognition. The Sensing Hub also supplies the AI engine with information about the user, including location, for more personalized responses. It can relay your favorite activities, age and fitness level, which sounds a little futuristic to me.

There’s also a feature called Vlogger’s View that will layer video from the selfie and rear cameras together into one view. It’s not a picture-in-picture thing — this feature uses improved image segmentation to remove the background from the selfie video to make it look like you’re standing in front of whatever your rear camera sees.

There is a good reason to be concerned about the misuse of these tools and that is why they are being worked on by a company called Truepic. The tech it is using is compliant with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity’s open standard, which is similar to a photo or video being authentic. It is possible to hack into a digital asset using EXIF data, but it is not able to do the same with password-based security.

There is a new system for linking laptops and phones with peripherals across manufacturers and OS platforms. Qualcomm says this will enable easier switching between devices — like switching to audio to your PC for a video call and back to music playing on your phone, for example.

This seems mainly aimed at getting Android and Windows devices talking to each other more easily, at least at launch. Qualcomm says it’s an open platform that anyone can join, although initially the technology will be largely accessed by Qualcomm’s direct OEM and OS partners. Every garden has to start somewhere — even an open one.