@harpercarrollai

I interviewed Chris Lattner, co-founder and CEO of Modular AI, in 2024, and I was fascinated and blown away by the technological feats the company achieved. Chris is one of those founders whose skillset is highly unusual and exceptional, having created the LLVM compiler infrastructure, Clang, and the Swift programming language (like… whoa). I was very impressed to hear that Qualcomm, creator of the @SnapdragonOfficial processors, had acquired them in July. Qualcomm Technologies, creator of @SnapdragonOfficial processors, is serious about running AI on their processors. Today, the Snapdragon X2® Elite Series processor delivers a baseline performance of 80 TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second) - the one of the fastest NPUs on  any laptop this year. With 32 GB of RAM on my device, I was able to run open-source model Qwen3 4B locally using the NPU with GenieX (QualcommTechnologies’ on-device generative AI inference runtime). Closed-source models (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude) guided me through the setup. It also has lots of other great features. If you run a business, check out Snapdragon X Elite Series laptops! More info in my link in bio. Also, if you’re new here, hi! I’m Harper. I’ve spent a decade building AI as a Stanford computer scientist and coding AI systems at Meta & at a startup. I’ve always loved to teach, and now I get to create educational videos to share the skills, understanding, and intuition I’ve worked years to develop with you. For my (free) 10 Days of AI Basics series + more, comment GUIDE and I’ll share my video walkthrough guide with you. #Snapdragon #SnapdragonXSeries #SponsoredBySnapdragon