Argmax builds tools and frameworks to bring Foundation Models On Device (FMOD) regardless of brand or age. Today, we are announcing WhisperKit Android which extends WhisperKit from Apple platforms to Android in collaboration with the Qualcomm AI Hub team.

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On Day 1, WhisperKit Android attains best-in-class performance on mobile devices powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon chips, such as the Samsung Galaxy, leveraging the NPU. We deploy to the GPU on other Android devices as we work toward broad and seamless NPU support.

Android has a diverse ecosystem of stakeholders which creates unique challenges (and opportunities). We are directly working with several stakeholders to bring the top performance, reliability and framework feature set required to productionize on-device inference for virtually all Android devices in 2025. Finally, the tech stack underneath WhisperKit Android is well-positioned to support Linux platforms for embedded IoT devices as part of a future milestone for the WhisperKit ecosystem.

To get started, subscribe to updates from our GitHub repository and get notified when WhisperKit Android graduates from alpha to beta in November 2024!

If you have a commercial use case, please drop us a note at info@argmaxinc.com.

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