29 September 2026 · 5 min read
Your phone can run a 30B model. It can't prove who its agent is.
At Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm showed a phone chip that runs a 30-billion-parameter model locally, with "secure permissions" on its list of agent needs and no spec after it. Running locally settles where data is read. It doesn't tell a bank which agent is calling, what it was handed, or when that ends.

