Consumer Appetite for Personal AI Goes Mainstream

This article is brought to you by Qualcomm Technologies. For many consumers, much of the promise and appeal of AI is personal. Consumers are looking past generic tools and want to know how these technologies will help them in their daily lives. These trends coincide with the advent of new classes of wearable devices that, in addition to being able to leverage powerful frontier models, feature built-in intelligence that understand the context of a user. Where are they? What are they seeing and hearing? What are their habits, their preferences, their schedules? It’s an astonishing pivot, from passive accessories that served mostly to send users smartphone notifications to proactive, intelligent companions.