PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses

PrismML, an AI lab founded by Caltech researchers and advised by UC Berkeley’s Ion Stoica, has ported its small language models to smart glasses powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon chips. At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, the company showcased PrismML’s 1-bit Bonsai LLM, designed to run locally on AI smart glasses built on the Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 Platform. PrismML says the approach cuts model size substantially—about 4x here—while keeping nearly all benchmark performance. The glasses version is a 2-billion-parameter model tuned for vision and language, letting wearers ask what they’re seeing in real time. No PrismML-powered smart glasses have been announced yet.