ModelCat AI, formerly the low-power chip pioneer Eta Compute, builds an agentic, hardware-aware platform that automatically designs, trains, optimizes and validates machine-learning models for embedded, edge and IoT devices. Its patented AI-in-the-Loop workflow, backed by a physical hardware farm that calibrates results against real silicon, compresses a model-development cycle that once took 12 to 24 months down to a matter of days. The Sunnyvale company works with chipmakers including NXP and Alif Semiconductor to hand developers ready-to-run models tuned to the exact constraints of the hardware they will run on.
Sensory is a Santa Clara-based company that builds on-device AI for voice, sound, and biometrics. Since 1994 its embedded software has shipped in more than three billion consumer electronics, from toys and wearables to cars and smart speakers, giving devices the ability to listen, see, and verify without sending data to the cloud.