AI has caught on with ChatGPT, which is being exploited by malicious actors to infect Windows and Android users with fake apps. As we see the growing presence of artificial intelligence in our lives, Qualcomm is working to make its ARM SoCs capable create images with artificial intelligence, on the fly and locally. This feature could officially come to Android smartphones in the future.

Qualcomm has released some images showing images of cats in armor that are said to have been created using a mobile device. To do this, the company’s own AI stack was used to run Stable Diffusion 1.5 on an Android smartphone without an internet connection. Since no internet connection is available, everything was processed locally on the device. The chip giant also posted a video on its YouTube research channel showing how Stable Diffusion works.

Qualcomm said it used the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, the best SoC on the market among those targeting Android devices today. Additionally, the version of Stable Diffusion used has been optimized for “quantization, compilation and hardware acceleration”. The result may not be impressive compared to what NVIDIA has achieved to give an example, but it is important to remember that many did not believe that smartphone SoCs were powerful enough to generate content of this type using AI and under the above conditions.

The generation of images with the help of artificial intelligence developed by Qualcomm is something that seems to have more of an experiment than a reality, so it is not known when it would become available to users of at least the mentioned Snapdragon Gen 2 and its successors and that if the company decides to make it available to the general public. Despite everything, this is an interesting addition that shows that artificial intelligence has become fashionable among users with a more common profile.