Qualcomm Teams Up with PrismML to Launch 1-bit Bonsai: Offline Image Recognition for AI Glasses, Memory Usage Reduced to 1/4
At the 2026 Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm and PrismML ran a 2B-parameter 1-bit quantized Bonsai vision model locally on Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 smart glasses, enabling offline image Q&A. Built on Bonsai 1.7B, 1-bit precision cuts memory to 1/4 of 4-bit models, allowing ~4x parameters in the same memory and reducing storage and inference needs.....