“There are some secret form factors that I cannot tell you about,” the Qualcomm CEO said in an interview with Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell on the Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast. “But I think we’re working with pretty much all of them.”
“Pretty much all of them,” in this case, means the AI companies racing to build the device that replaces the smartphone. OpenAI, Meta, and others that Amon declined to name in an interview from the company’s San Diego headquarters. This device won’t be something you can hold; it’ll be “things you wear”: glasses, jewelry, pins, pendants. And it’ll center on the idea that the center of digital life will no longer be a phone but an autonomous agent.
So let’s say for a brief moment that I want to wear an AI around everywhere I go. Of what use would it be to have all of them? Am I supposed to poll Grok, Claude, and ChatGPT and majority wins? Or do I just pick my favorite answer? Are they going to argue it out?
I can’t keep the names of my kids straight when I call to them, why the fuck would I want to remember a dozen more names?