This Qualcomm-Google partnership may give us the in-car voice assistants we’ve been waiting for

If there’s one factor we have realized over the previous yr, it is that generative AI is enjoying a pivotal function in technological developments, together with the place folks spend a lot of their day — cars. At present, Google and Qualcomm have formally partnered to leverage their chips and generative AI capabilities to assist builders create extra enriched automotive experiences.

On Tuesday, on the chipmaker’s Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm introduced a multi-year collaboration with Google that may make the most of each corporations’ newest applied sciences, together with Snapdragon Digital Chassis, Android Automotive OS, and Google Cloud, to advance digital transformation in vehicles and develop generative AI-enabled digital cockpits. 

In line with the press launch, Google will carry its AI experience to the collaboration, permitting for the event of intuitive generative AI experiences that anticipate customers’ wants, corresponding to extra superior voice assistants and immersive mapping, making driving as a complete extra burdenless.

In the meantime, Qualcomm will provide its Snapdragon heterogeneous edge AI system-on-chips (SoC) and its Qualcomm AI Hub, a platform that builders can use to deploy and handle AI fashions onto Qualcomm-powered units to run the experiences and underlying imaginative and prescient, audio, and speech fashions.

“Our expertise collaboration with Google to drive innovation and develop cutting-edge, Gen AI-enabled options is a big milestone in unlocking new prospects for automakers and Tier-1 suppliers whereas empowering the trade to create protected and digitally superior experiences,” mentioned Nakul Duggal, Group GM of Automotive, Industrial and Cloud Computing at Qualcomm. 

Collectively, the businesses will develop a standardized reference framework for creating generative AI-enabled digital cockpits. The framework might be pre-integrated with the Android Automotive Working System (AAOS) software program, which permits customers to have the identical acquainted expertise and entry an assistant as they often would, with a responsive voice person interface, this time optimized by Google AI and Snapdragon SoCs. 

Qualcomm additionally means that “the framework permits Google Cloud-hosted automotive software program improvement to be optimized for Snapdragon platforms, rising developer productiveness whereas decreasing time to marketplace for AAOS platform and providers.” If true, these modifications ought to daring nicely for future automotive experiences. 

Disclosure: The price of Sabrina Ortiz’s journey to Maui, Hawaii, for the Qualcomm Summit, was lined by Qualcomm, a typical trade apply for long-distance journeys. The judgments and opinions of ZDNET’s writers and editors are at all times unbiased of the businesses we cowl.