Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 will power the next Galaxy and phones that will hear and see everything

• Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 platform for future smartphones
• It focuses not only on running AI features, but also gathering information for future AI models
• The first Elite Gen 5 phones will come from Xiaomi, and it will likely power a rumored Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra

At the Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm today announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile platform, the chipset that will likely power this year’s newest flagship Android smartphones, like the presumed Samsung Galaxy S26 and OnePlus 14. Of course, the platform focuses on empowering AI features, and it goes further than ever to capture information that will feed your personal machine learning models.

The model Qualcomm has in mind is so-called Agentic AI. The concept of Agentic AI is a machine learning tool that does everything for you. Whatever you might want to do with your ...