#080 - The Frontier Fits in Your Pocket

We Are Still Human · Oct 6, 2026 · 8m

Let's talk about thirty billion parameters. That is how much model Qualcomm says its next flagship phone chip can hold on the device itself. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6. Not shipped yet — the full specifications land at Snapdragon Summit on the twenty-second of September. And I want to be careful with the claim, because the honest version matters more than the impressive one. Thirty billion parameters in a mixture-of-experts model, meaning the phone holds the whole thing but only wakes up about three billion…

This episode of WE ARE STILL HUMAN examines the human stakes behind the frontier fits…