- Blaize Holdings secures a $120 million contract to deploy its hybrid AI platform across Asia-Pacific, focusing on smart city applications.
- The partnership with Starshine Computing will roll out over 18 months, targeting high-growth markets like India, China, and Japan.
- This deal supports infrastructure for smart cities, industrial automation, and intelligent public services.
Blaize Holdings Inc. (BZAI, Financial), a leading provider in edge AI computing, has announced a contractual agreement worth $120 million with Starshine Computing Power Technology Limited. This collaboration will focus on deploying Blaize's scalable, energy-efficient hybrid AI platform across various Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions, starting in fiscal Q3 2025 and extending through 2026.
The partnership is aimed at strengthening AI infrastructure in APAC's fastest-growing economies, including India, China, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia. This initiative will drive advancements in smart city developments, industrial automation, and real-time public services, marking a significant leap in APAC's AI capabilities.
Blaize's cutting-edge GSP®-based AI platform is set to underpin the next-generation computing clusters, integrating with GPU-based infrastructure to enhance efficiency, flexibility, and support for multimodal workloads. This rollout aims to optimize energy consumption and reduce costs while enabling real-time data processing at the edge, crucial for developing smart cities and industrial environments.
Dinakar Munagala, CEO of Blaize, stated, "Asia represents a $112 billion opportunity for next-generation intelligent systems, and our hybrid AI platform is ready to meet this demand." With the hybrid AI systems increasingly being recognized as essential infrastructure, this deployment will potentially revolutionize sectors such as smart city surveillance, retail & security, smart industry, and agriculture technology across the region.
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