Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset brings Apple Intelligence feature to Galaxy S25 Ultra [Video]

The Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset — Qualcomm’s latest and greatest processor — is a capable little piece of silicon. As such a recently discovered bit of fascinating code reveals that we might be getting on-device AI image editing on the Galaxy S25 Ultra.

A big selling point of Apple Intelligence is the ability to carry out some AI tasks locally on the device instead of having to rely on the cloud. This not only means a stronger guarantee of privacy but also eliminates the need to always be connected to the internet. And apparently the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset is powerful enough to let you edit images with AI on-device.

The code found listed special characteristics for various chipsets. For the Snapdragon 8 Elite there was a feature called ‘FEATURE_GEN_EDIT_ON_DEVICE’ which pretty much speaks for itself. There were other listed tools too but it isn’t confirmed whether they will be able to run without …