Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1+ Is A New Chip For High-End Smart Glasses
Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 is a new chipset for high-end smart glasses, and the company says it can run small language models on-device.
Qualcomm's Snapdragon AR1+ Gen 1 is a new chipset for high-end smart glasses.
The base Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 is used in the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, launched in late 2023.
Qualcomm, says the new higher-end AR1+ Gen 1 is 26% smaller, enabling slimmer glasses arms, and uses less power to enable longer battery life.
AR1+ Gen 1 also has an improved ISP, for higher quality image and video capture, and a more powerful NPU that the company claims enables running small language models on-device.
At Augmented World Expo 2025 today, where Qualcomm announced AR1+ Gen 1, the company demonstrated prototype glasses with AR1+ Gen 1 running Meta's Llama 1B fully on-device, no internet or external device required.
This story is breaking and will be updated as more details emerge.
