Reka EdgeQ: An On-Device VLM Running Natively on the Snapdragon Hexagon NPU

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Loading videoReka EdgeQ is an optimized on-device VLM running natively on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Hexagon NPU: 0.73s time to first token on images, +34 points over Gemma 4 E4B on MLVU video, 6.9 mWh per inference, and a GPU left completely idle during inference.
Category: perception
Author: @RekaAILabs
Date: 2026-09-22T00:00:00
Duration: 6.506s
Reference: https://reka.ai/labs/research/reka-edgeq





