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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM):
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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the expansion of its strategic relationship with Hugging Face to advance open, developer-driven artificial intelligence (AI) from devices to cloud infrastructure. This collaboration is intended to unite Qualcomm Technologies’ industry-leading device to data center platforms with Hugging Face’s global AI community, model ecosystem, and developer software tools, to enable a new era of agentic AI and hybrid inference at scale.
The collaboration is designed to unlock a unified AI experience by seamlessly connecting edge devices and cloud systems powered by Qualcomm Technologies’ products. Through this effort, applications can intelligently balance performance, cost, and latency in order to deliver more powerful and accessible AI solutions for developers and enterprises worldwide.
“This engagement represents a major step forward in making advanced AI more open, scalable, and accessible,” said Cristiano Amon, President and CEO, Qualcomm Incorporated. “By combining Qualcomm’s leadership in high-performance, low-power computing with Hugging Face’s vibrant developer ecosystem, we are enabling a new generation of AI applications that seamlessly span device and cloud.”
"Increasingly the world is running on open and local models because they're more affordable than the big APIs and private by design," said Clément Delangue, Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face. "Together with Qualcomm Technologies, using Modular software and tools, we're making it easy for our 16 million developers to run open models everywhere, from a device in your hand to a full rack in the data center, with agents that work across the compute continuum.”
The collaboration is expected to focus on three key pillars across Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Dragonwing and Dragonfly family of products, driving AI usage from Hugging Face’s 16 million developers across data center infrastructure, accelerating AI model deployment from edge devices to cloud, and enabling agentic AI orchestration on hybrid AI environments.
The first element focuses on driving open AI model usage by connecting Qualcomm Technologies’ data center infrastructure with Hugging Face’s AI storage infrastructure. Through the collaboration, Hugging Face’s storage and inference services are planned to map to high-performance, energy-efficient data center solutions powered by Qualcomm Dragonfly™ products. Further, the Hugging Face global developer ecosystem is expected to be able to deploy and scale AI workloads on data center solutions powered by Qualcomm Dragonfly products, with the goal of creating a direct path from model experimentation to production deployment of apps and agents.
The second element of the collaboration is planned to accelerate AI model deployment across devices and data center racks powered by Qualcomm Technologies products. With over 3 million open models for every task, domain and modality, Hugging Face offers ready-to-use models for every use case and industry. AI models from the Hugging Face ecosystem are planned to be onboarded on Qualcomm Technologies platforms using an Agent that handles setup, optimization and deployment, with zero manual integration work. This is intended to make it easier for developers to bring advanced AI capabilities to smartphones, PCs, wearables, industrial systems, automotive platforms, newer edge devices and data center solutions powered by Qualcomm products, with a single workflow from edge to cloud. This work is designed to simplify the developer journey, reducing time to deployment of AI applications and agents. As part of the engagement, Hugging Face will offer access to Hugging Face PRO to customers using devices or cloud systems with Qualcomm Technologies’ platforms, enabling premium storage, compute and collaboration to build with open models.
The third element enables the orchestration of Agentic AI across device and cloud environments powered by Qualcomm Technologies products. Qualcomm Technologies and Hugging Face plan to support a distributed AI framework in which intelligent agents can operate across on-device and cloud systems, dynamically orchestrating models and workflows based on performance, cost, privacy, and latency needs. Together, these efforts are intended to help developers build a more seamless hybrid AI experience, where intelligence can move fluidly across the compute continuum from edge devices to data center infrastructure. Developers will be able to access Modular’s AI software components and tools via the Hugging Face ecosystem.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a global computing leader at the center of the AI era, enabling intelligence to scale from the most personal devices to large-scale infrastructure. Building on more than four decades of innovation, we develop platforms and solutions that bring together advanced AI, high-performance low power computing, and industry-leading connectivity—powering products and services used around the world. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress.
Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm patents are licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated. Qualcomm, Snapdragon, Qualcomm Dragonwing and Qualcomm Dragonfly are trademarks or registered trademarks of Qualcomm Incorporated.
About Hugging Face
Hugging Face is the leading open platform for AI Builders, making it easy for developers to build their own AI using open source and its collaboration platform hosting millions of open models and datasets for the global AI community.
Hugging Face PRO ( hf.co/pro ) is an all-in-one subscription to discover, use, and build with AI on Hugging Face.
Qualcomm and Hugging Face Expand Relationship to Advance Open, Developer-Driven AI from Device to Cloud
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump berated Senate Republicans face to face on Wednesday for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran, further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt.
Invited by Florida Sen. Rick Scott to speak at a GOP luncheon in the Capitol, Trump had signaled ahead of time that he would use the closed-door meeting to push senators to pass his proof-of-citizenship voting bill. But the conversation was more focused on Tuesday's vote to approve the war powers resolution, a mostly symbolic measure that allows Congress to rebuke the administration's military actions. The House passed its own version of the resolution earlier this month.
Trump had particular words for the four Republican senators who voted with Democrats on the measure — Republicans Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana — after calling them “losers” on social media.
Most Republicans stayed quiet. But Cassidy, who lost re-election in his primary last month after Trump endorsed an opponent, stood up and defended his vote.
“I stood and said, ‘You have not told the American people what’s going on,’” Cassidy told reporters after the meeting. “This was supposed to last four weeks, it’s lasted four months. Our original objectives have not been achieved.”
The two men “went back and forth,” Cassidy said, and he “matched his tone and volume." Cassidy said that he eventually de-escalated, but he did not want to be bullied.
“I am voting for war powers until I get a briefing,” he said afterward.
Trump repeatedly told Cassidy to sit down, according to a person familiar with the private meeting who was not authorized to discuss it. At one point, the president called the senator a “lunatic."
Publicly, Trump said afterward that they had “a really great meeting." But he hinted at the discord.
“We like everyone in the room," Trump told reporters on his way out. "I don’t like a few people, but that’s OK.”
The luncheon capped weeks of friction between Trump and Senate Republicans and added a new layer of frustration as Tuesday's vote was the first time the Senate had adopted a war powers resolution on the Iran war. Trump made clear he was in no mood to compromise before it even started, calling off a scheduled signing ceremony on a housing bill that passed both chambers overwhelmingly this week and that GOP lawmakers were touting as an election-year achievement.
Republican senators were eager for a conciliatory meeting with the president after escalating tensions in recent weeks. But Trump upended their plans when he declared on social media just beforehand that he wouldn't sign the legislation until they send him the SAVE America Act, his bill to require proof of citizenship for all voters.
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said he doesn't know why Trump is holding the housing bill “hostage” for the voting bill that “will never pass in this Congress.”
“It makes no sense to me,” Tillis said as he walked into the luncheon.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said the housing legislation, which aims to lower costs, is "an affordability issue,” Thune said, "and eventually I hope he finds a way to sign it.”
It's unclear if Trump might veto the legislation. But by rejecting a public bill signing, Republicans worry that Trump is indicating a level of indifference to voters’ affordability concerns heading into November’s midterm elections.
Trump's move on the housing bill is his latest reversal after weeks of being at odds with Senate Republicans.
Trump has blocked the Senate from confirming one of his own nominees, asked them to fund parts of his White House ballroom project despite opposition and forced them to defend the Iran war even as they question the strategy and endgame.
Trump has also helped whittle down his own support in the Senate after endorsing primary challengers to two GOP incumbents who were previously reliable votes for his agenda — Cassidy and Texas Sen. John Cornyn. Both men have become more critical of Trump since losing re-election.
“If we’re going to win the midterm elections, we need to get on the same page,” Cornyn said ahead of the meeting. “We’re not on the same page now, and that I think is dangerous.”
The lunch meeting didn't appear to bring the two sides any closer together. “It was kind of a one sided conversation,” Thune said afterward.
Trump has pressed Republicans for months to kill the Senate filibuster and focus on the proof-of-citizenship voting bill, even though Thune has repeatedly told him that neither has the votes.
While Thune remains popular in his conference and cordial with the president, he has spent much of his time lately telling Trump what he doesn’t want to hear. Thune said Tuesday that while Trump and some in their conference want to see the voting bill pass, “it’s just not realistic.”
Trump has also demanded that they add a ban on mail-in ballots to the bill as well as unrelated provisions to block sex reassignment surgeries on some minors and prevent transgender women from playing in women’s sports.
Thune devoted weeks of floor time to the voting bill earlier this year and has said he supports it. But he has repeatedly said there aren’t enough votes to scrap the filibuster that triggers a 60-vote threshold to pass most bills in the 53-47 Senate. And Democrats are uniformly opposed to the bill.
“Those are just hard realities,” Thune said. “And I think people at some point have to come to grips with that.“
Scott did not give Thune a heads up before inviting Trump to the Wednesday luncheon, which he runs. Scott, who ran against Thune for leader two years ago, said Trump responded on the spot to his invitation while the two were talking last week and said he would come.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Wednesday that he had talked through a different approach on his call with Trump — putting the voting bill on a budget reconciliation measure that would only need a simple majority to pass. He has proposed a federal grant program that would provide funding to states if they implement various SAVE Act provisions.
But the process is long and complicated, and Republicans are divided over how to proceed.
A handful of senators are also still pushing the bill. Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has amassed a large following on X with daily posts about how they should kill the filibuster and pass the bill, echoing Trump's claims that Republicans need it to win in this year's midterms, even after sweeping victories in 2024.
Scott said Trump spelled out during the meeting the various options the Senate could pursue is passing the SAVE Act.
“He really believes its the key to this fall," Scott said of Trump.
Associated Press writers Josh Boak and Kevin Freking contributed to this report.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., leaves a closed-door meeting with President Donald Trump and Republican senators, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Donald Trump walks away after speaking to reporters with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., at the Ohio Clock on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after meeting with Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump turns to depart after speaking with reporters as Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., listen on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
President Donald Trump is joined by from left: Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, of S.D., as he departs the Senate Steering Committee Lunch at the U.S. Capitol, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
President Donald Trump, escorted by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., heads to a meeting with Senate Republicans at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks to reporters as Republican senators arrive for a closed-door lunch at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2026, to prepare for a meeting with President Donald Trump Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2026, as he prepares for a meeting with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
