Generative AI on the edge — Why and what is needed

In the fast-moving generative AI (Gen AI) market, two sets of recent announcements, although unrelated, portend why and how this nascent technology could evolve. The first set was Microsoft’s Office 365 Copilot and Adobe’s Firefly announcements, and the second was from Qualcomm, Intel, Google and Meta regarding running Gen AI models on edge devices. This evolution from cloud-based to Edge Gen AI is not…