Aligns with BrainChip’s long-term strategy to accelerate customer access to its innovations and reduce development cycles
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based neuromorphic AI, today announced launch of the BrainChip Developer Akida Cloud, a new cloud-based access point to multiple generations and configurations of the company’s Akida™ neuromorphic technology. The initial Developer Cloud release will feature the latest version of Akida’s 2nd generation technology, Akida 2.
“Our developer cloud provides instant access to the latest Akida technology, as we deliver our Akida products on our roadmap to customers quickly and easily,” said Jonathan Tapson, chief development officer at BrainChip. “We’re reducing the time and effort to utilize Akida, so developers can program and execute their network models for immediate results so they can accelerate product development. We’ve shortened the time between our innovations and our customers’ ability to seamlessly and cost-effectively access Akida.”
One of the key innovations of this approach is that developers can stream their real-time data to Akida Cloud, perform inferencing, and stream the results back locally. This is demonstrated in a featured use case, eye-tracking, with immediate results used to measure accuracy and allow iteration of the training of the model to improve the results over a range of actual operating conditions. Hélder Rodríguez López, Embedded Software Research Engineer at Arquimea Research, said, “The Akida Cloud’s ability to provide us advanced access to the latest features of Akida and easily test our neuromorphic model innovations remotely is a real advantage for progressing our advanced model development programs.”
BrainChip Developer Akida Cloud key benefits include:
- Rapid prototyping: Developers can access and leverage Akida’s latest features without needing physical hardware.
- Developer-first access: Engineers can start development in parallel with hardware deployment.
- Extensibility: As new versions and configurations of Akida are released, BrainChip can make them available via the cloud.
- Partner benefits: Partners can demo working models and prototypes for customers so they can work in parallel before gaining access to Akida boards or chips.
- Flexible business model: Includes limited free access and usage-based pricing with credit toward eventual hardware purchases. BrainChip also sells an Akida FPGA Developer Platform if a customer wants an on-premises solution.
Engineered for ultra-efficient, low-power AI, the second-generation Akida 2 is now available in the cloud, delivering a four times performance and efficiency gain over Akida 1. Developers can now build more sophisticated models on Akida 2 with greater accuracy thanks to new architectural support for 8-bit quantization. New models supported on Akida 2 include state-space based Temporal Event-Based Neural Nets (TENNs), which enhance the ability to process raw temporal data from video, audio, and sensors. This combination simplifies the development pipeline, reduces model size, and accelerates the deployment of advanced AI in edge applications across multiple sectors.
About BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY)
BrainChip is the worldwide leader in Edge AI on-chip processing and learning. The company’s first-to-market, fully digital, event-based AI processor, Akida™, uses neuromorphic principles to mimic the human brain, analyzing only essential sensor inputs at the point of acquisition and processing data with unmatched efficiency, precision, and energy economy.
BrainChip’s Temporal Event-based Neural Networks (TENNs) build on State-Space Models (SSMs) with time-sensitive, event-driven frameworks that are ideal for real-time streaming applications. These innovations make low-power Edge AI deployable across industries such as aerospace, autonomous vehicles, robotics, industrial IoT, consumer devices, and wearables. BrainChip is advancing the future of intelligent computing, bringing AI closer to the sensor and closer to real-time.
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