A regulatory filing shows Alphabet held 2,976,982 Qualcomm shares worth $547.9 million at the end of September, representing less than 0.5% of Qualcomm's outstanding shares. The Information reported that Google Ventures received the shares through Qualcomm's acquisition of Modular, but the filing did not disclose the purchase date, price or purpose, and related share counts remain unreconciled. After the holding was reported, Qualcomm shares rose more than 3% in premarket trading.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash, also known as Space Bunny, became available on Modular Cloud on its launch day and was reportedly already serving production traffic. Modular says the model can apply a code fix in a real codebase and then update Jira and Slack, while describing it as the best open model for cowork automation with state-of-the-art coding and engineering performance; no independent measurements are provided.
Speaking on Alex Heath's Sources podcast, recorded at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui and published on 8 October, CEO Cristiano Amon said some companies at the forefront of AI have told Qualcomm they need "the ability to run at least a hundred billion parameter model into a phone" by 2028, running "kind of all the time," though he would not name them. Amon said AI companies are starting to make phones, citing ByteDance's Doubao phone made by Nubia, and argued the phone holds a user's personal context, sensor data and the apps an agent must operate — with OpenClaw making the AI smartphone idea concrete. He also said memory prices have risen five to six times and the smartphone market is down 20% this year with mid-range and cheaper devices hit hardest, while discussing smart glasses, open-sourcing the Modular platform under Apache 2.0 for any chip, and 6G demos planned for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
TechNews reports that Qualcomm is advancing an "open software, proprietary chips" strategy aimed at reducing NVIDIA's CUDA software lock-in and shifting competition back to hardware. The report says Qualcomm has disclosed acquisitions of Edge Impulse, Arduino and Modular since early 2025, adding PickNik Robotics in its latest move, and at Snapdragon Summit announced it would integrate Mojo, MAX and Modular Cloud into a unified software layer spanning Snapdragon phones, X2 PCs, AR1 glasses, Wear Elite watches, Sound Gen earbuds and the upcoming Dragonfly data center processor. Qualcomm says developers can move Mojo workflows between NVIDIA or cloud GPUs and Snapdragon devices without rewriting code, though the portability claim is not independently verified.
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