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The Deep View: Conversations

The Deep View: Conversations

Why your phone still isn't the ultimate AI assistant

Sep 27, 2026 · 29m

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Nearly every smartphone launched in the past year features agentic AI capabilities, offering users an early look at what a fully agentic smartphone future could do for them. Of course, the tech powering it is driven by the chipsets. In this episode of The Deep View Conversations, we talked with Vinesh Sukumar, Qualcomm's VP of AI at the Snapdragon Summit, the company's annual conference where it launches its latest processors. This year, the launch included the mobile platforms Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 for phones and Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 for wearables. Vinesh discussed how the chipsets came to be, including the special considerations made during their design such as…