The popularity of ChatGPT is a 'milestone' in establishing Qualcomm as an AI company, CEO says

The explosive popularity of ChatGPT is an accidental to amusement disconnected the capabilities of artificial quality connected smartphones, according to spot institution Qualcomm's main executive.

"This is the milestone we've been waiting for to found Qualcomm arsenic an AI company," Cristiano Amon told CNBC astatine the Mobile World Congress successful Barcelona.

Developed by probe institution OpenAI, chatbot ChatGPT has been shared wide online, arsenic users inquire it to reply questions, make substance oregon supply detailed, responsive information.

Qualcomm precocious released videos of substance being utilized to make AI images connected an Android phone, which it besides demonstrated astatine the conference.

"You privation to make immoderate representation that you privation to stock with somebody, you privation to bash it successful real-time — deliberation astir what Microsoft is doing with search, and you privation to chat with the hunt results," Amon told CNBC's Karen Tso and Arjun Kharpal. "For you to marque that happen, you can't tally everything successful a information center, you're going to person to bring the AI to the devices."

Large-language models volition beryllium generated wholly wrong smartphones, helium said, meaning that they volition beryllium capable to enactment without being connected to the internet.

"The quality to make that overmuch processing powerfulness successful a smartphone and tally that without compromising the artillery beingness is thing that lone Qualcomm tin do," helium claimed.

In a enactment this week, analysts astatine Bernstein said that the powering of AI queries could beryllium a multi-billion dollar yearly marketplace accidental for chipmakers.

Qualcomm has besides supplied chips for a assortment of virtual world devices, partnering with the likes of Meta, Samsung and Google.

Amon said that helium believed astute glasses were the adjacent frontier of computing and the "merging of carnal and integer spaces."

"I tin spot a script that you're going to person your companion glasses to your phone, and yet you're conscionable going to person the glasses. And the imaginable is incredible."

He added, "It's going to happen, it's coming precise soon."

Amon besides told CNBC that Qualcomm did not expect to nutrient modems for Apple's caller iPhone successful 2024, suggesting that the tech giant's highly-anticipated determination into in-house products whitethorn beryllium approaching.