Murali Akula

Murali Akula, Sr. Director of Software Engineering at Qualcomm, leads innovations in AI for Snapdragon chips. He discusses the full-stack approach to AI development, emphasizing collaboration between research and deployment teams. The conversation uncovers challenges of deploying machine learning on mobile devices, including optimizing for power and memory constraints. Murali also highlights advancements like the X-Distill algorithm for depth estimation and the shift to localized AI training, showcasing how these breakthroughs are revolutionizing AI applications.