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Practical AI and computer vision technology is being developed for systems that span virtually every application, and many of these application areas will experience huge growth rates. With trendsetting products demonstrating what is possible, system designers have discovered that the suppliers of computer vision technology have removed the barriers to building practical computer vision systems—unleashing a huge wave of innovation for new products and applications.
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Grounded AI Starts Here: Rapid Customization for RAG and Context Engineering
This blog post was originally published in expanded form at RapidFire AI’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of RapidFire AI. Building a reliable Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline should not feel like guesswork. Yet for most AI developers, it still does. According to a recent MIT study on enterprise AI adoption, around 95%

poLight ASA Collaborates with Image Quality Labs on M12-based Raspberry Pi TLens Studio for AI-driven Industrial Machine Vision Applications
TØNSBERG, Norway–(BUSINESS WIRE)–poLight ASA (OSE: PLT) and Image Quality Labs (IQL) today announced the development of an M12-based Raspberry Pi TLens® Studio evaluation and development platform, utilizing the new line of TLens® off-the-shelf (OTS) focusing camera lens. This platform enables machine vision design engineers to quickly and easily evaluate high speed, constant field-of-view focusing functionality on their existing

AI On: 3 Ways to Bring Agentic AI to Computer Vision Applications
This blog post was originally published at NVIDIA’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of NVIDIA. Learn how to integrate vision language models into video analytics applications, from AI-powered search to fully automated video analysis. Today’s computer vision systems excel at identifying what happens in physical spaces and processes, but lack the abilities to explain the

Better Than Real? What an Apple-Orchard Benchmark Really Says About Synthetic Data for Vision AI
If you work on edge AI or computer vision, you’ve probably run into the same wall over and over: The model architecture is fine. The deployment hardware is (barely) ok. But the data is killing you—too narrow, too noisy, too expensive to expand. That’s true whether you’re counting apples, spotting defects on a production line,

Ambarella’s CV3-AD655 Surround View with IMG BXM GPU: A Case Study
The CV3-AD family block diagram. This blog post was originally published at Imagination Technologies’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Imagination Technologies. Ambarella’s CV3-AD655 autonomous driving AI domain controller pairs energy-efficient compute with Imagination’s IMG BXM GPU to enable real-time surround-view visualisation for L2++/L3 vehicles. This case study outlines the industry shift

Overcoming the Skies: Navigating the Challenges of Drone Autonomy
This blog post was originally published at Inuitive’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Inuitive. From early military prototypes to today’s complex commercial operations, drones have evolved from experimental aircraft into essential tools across industries. Since the FAA issued its first commercial permit in 2006, applications have rapidly expanded—from disaster relief and

NVIDIA Advances Open Model Development for Digital and Physical AI
This blog post was originally published at NVIDIA’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of NVIDIA. NVIDIA releases new AI tools for speech, safety and autonomous driving — including NVIDIA DRIVE Alpamayo-R1, the world’s first open industry-scale reasoning vision language action model for mobility — and a new independent benchmark recognizes the openness and

The 8-Series Reimagined: Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Delivers Premium Performance and Experiences
San Diego, California November 25, 2025 — Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced the Snapdragon® 8 Gen 5 Mobile Platform, a premium offering that combines outstanding performance with cutting-edge technologies, raising the bar for flagship mobile experiences. Key Takeaways: The Snapdragon 8-series continues to expand premium smartphone technologies, fueling many of the world’s leading flagship devices,

Google Announces LiteRT Qualcomm AI Engine Direct Accelerator
Google has announced a new LiteRT Qualcomm AI Engine Direct Accelerator, giving Android and embedded developers a much more direct path to Qualcomm NPUs for on-device AI and vision workloads. Built on top of Qualcomm’s AI Engine Direct (“QNN”) SDK, the new accelerator replaces the older TensorFlow Lite QNN delegate and plugs directly into LiteRT,

Small Models, Big Heat — Conquering Korean ASR with Low-bit Whisper
This blog post was originally published at ENERZAi’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of ENERZAi. Today, we’ll share results where we re-trained the original Whisper for optimal Korean ASR(Automatic Speech Recognition), applied Post-Training Quantization (PTQ), and provided a richer Pareto analysis so customers with different constraints and requirements can pick exactly what
