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Why the Edge AI Foundation is the movement you didn’t know you needed

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By Emily Curryer


If you’re mindful of AI, your brain is probably frozen in a loop of GPUs, data centres, and oversized transformer models. Real-world AI isn’t about crunching billion-token models. It’s often about getting smart, low-power intelligence running where the action is. Enter the Edge AI Foundation. A growing global community that’s making AI practical, portable, and personal for design engineers.

Edge AI may be more than you think…

So, what is Edge AI? It’s doesn’t live in the cloud—it lives in your thermostat, your car, your water monitor. AI that makes decisions right there, without the need for a round trip to a server farm. The Edge AI Foundation puts this power into the hands of engineers. Those who desire fast, private, and efficient systems without the latency or cost of cloud-based solutions.

It isn’t just about sensors and microcontrollers anymore, however. According to Pete Warden, who spoke with us at Computex 2025, the edge can be anything from a Raspberry Pi to a rack-mounted unit running lightweight AI models in the field.

The Foundation unravelled

The Edge AI Foundation is here to educate and connect engineers building these systems, so no one has to reinvent the wheel—or train their own CNN from scratch. It hosts Discord servers packed with design engineers, livestreams with hands-on workshops, and global events that bring together everyone from silicon vendors to AI model providers. If you’ve ever thought, “How do I put AI into a sensor?”—this is your community.

Whether you’re building the next-gen smart irrigation system or retrofitting industrial machinery with real-time defect detection, the Edge AI Foundation has something for you. It’s about making AI accessible and practical at the edge.

Do you want to connect with collaborators across the AI hardware and software stack? If so, visit the Edge AI Foundation online or catch them at events around the world. Real AI doesn’t live in the cloud anymore. It lives at the edge—and the edge is just getting started.

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