On-Device AI's Last Mile: Insurance Tech Sees New Opportunities from Qualcomm Keynote

When insurance companies' underwriting models require uploading users' facial data to the cloud, how many users would drop their application due to privacy concerns? The answer could determine the trajectory of insurtech business models for the next decade. At the 2026 WAIC Edge AI Forum, Dr. Xu Hao from Qualcomm pointed out a key direction: in the agent era, computing architecture is shifting from the cloud back to the edge, which happens to crack open the long-standing "data privacy paradox" in the insurance industry.