Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 runs a 30B-parameter MoE model on the phone
TechCrunch·medium signal
Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. The Extreme can run a 30B mixture-of-experts model locally, and both chips have a sensing hub that runs models of up to 200M parameters for always-on voice-in, voice-out agents. The first announced phone is the Motorola Signature 27, due this year. A 30B MoE on a phone moves Qwen-class local agents from laptops to handsets.