📢 Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators 2025 - APAC

The Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators (QAIPI) 2025 – APAC is open to any individual professional developers from Japan, Singapore, and South Korea and startup companies incorporated and registered in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, with an account at Qualcomm AI Hub.

The program is implemented in two phases to support professional developers and startups in creating and commercializing on-device end-to-end AI solutions.

First Phase (Application): Open to both individual professional developers and startups based in the APAC region, this phase leverages the Qualcomm AI-Hub and its ecosystem, including model makers, cloud providers, runtime, and SDK partners, to help participants develop cutting-edge AI solutions.

Program Benefits

For Individual Professional Developers

Eligible participants will receive following program benefits:

1.Online training sessions

2.Digital badge with participant name listed

For startups

Shortlisted startups will be eligible to receive following program benefits:

Online training sessions

1.6-month 1:1 mentorship

2.Receive a physical hardware or development kit powered by Qualcomm for product development as mutually agreed upon.

3.Receive a stipend valued at up to the equivalent of US$5,000

4.Eligible to receive a patent filing incentive up to the equivalent of US$5,000

5.Demo day

Timeline

First Phase: accepting applications till 11:59 p.m. PST Time on 15 April 2025

Second Phase: Approximately May to October 2025

Online training sessions

1:1 mentorship for shortlisted startups (*)

(*) The shortlisted startups for the Second Phase would be announced in May on the program website.

Demo Day for shortlisted startups: A date to be announced in October/November 2025

Qualcomm AI Program for Innovator 2025