BRN Discussion Ongoing

[Frangipani]

Hi TopCat,

we can 100% exclude that they haven’t heard of BrainChip, as two of the researchers who collaborated on the publication in Nature had/have connections to our company:

Dhireesha Kudithipudi on LinkedIn: #nature #nsf | 17 comments

Published in #Nature today. Over the course of one year, a team of 23 researchers from 17 organizations across the world, worked diligently thinking about the… | 17 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com

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Gert Cauwenberghs (UC San Diego) was on the BrainChip Scientific Advisory Board from 2015-2017…

https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20151110/pdf/432vgtp2z6dqdh.pdf

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https://isn.ucsd.edu/vitae/vitae.pdf

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… and Cory Merkel is Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), which joined the BrainChip University AI Accelerator Program in November 2022:

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New research shows AI systems are getting closer to processing information like humans

RIT engineering professor Cory Merkel was one of more than a dozen researchers in neuromorphic computing contributing findings published on Jan. 22 in Natu

www.rit.edu

Also, Cory Merkel and lead author Dhireesha Kudithipudi (University of Texas-San Antonio) “have been long-time collaborators from when she was a professor in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering.” (until 2019)

And some of the other neuromorphic researchers listed are definitely at least aware of BrainChip… So there must be another reason for the omission.


Below the image you posted it says “This is a subset of publicly announced neuromorphic chips/subsystems”.

The publication itself (behind a paywall) might provide an explanation?
Could it have to do with the fact that the researchers seem to have focused on the development of future large-scale neuromorphic systems in this publication, whereas BrainChip was viewed to target only or primarily the extreme Edge AI market?

The reply on LinkedIn given by SpiNNcloud Systems (two of whose co-founders were among the authors of that paper published in Nature) confirms my prior speculation as to why BrainChip may have been omitted in that image:

SpiNNcloud Systems on LinkedIn: #spinnaker2 #nature

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 Two of our co-founders were among the authors from 17 institutions, national…

www.linkedin.com

BrainChip does get acknowledged as a major neuromorphic player, though, if that’s any consolation:

(On a side note: Why does it state there are four , but only three are visible? )

 

[CHIPS]

(On a side note: Why does it state there are four , but only three are visible? )

@Frangipani It is the same on X.com, one is using the private mode.

 

[Frangipani]

Mohamed Sobhy Fouda on LinkedIn: #neronaut #giveaways #esa #estec #ecss #neuromorphic #salutesspace… | 13 comments

Celebrating 1 Year of #NEROnaut: From the First Line of Code to a Future of computing! 🚀 #Giveaways included One year ago, I was attending an #ESA training… | 13 comments on LinkedIn

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Munich-based astropreneur and founder of Salutes Space Mohamed Sobhy Fouda has apparently been busy experimenting with both his Akida Raspberry Pi and Akida PCIe Board - stay tuned:


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Sneak Peek : A Glimpse of What’s Coming

We’re beyond excited to share a sneak peek of our journey so far—highlighting the incredible achievements and groundbreaking performance we've unlocked together!

From harsh experimental conditions to record-breaking milestones, our first Robot-on-Chip, Merlin Gigabytes, has successfully passed the ultimate tests. The question was: can Merlin take control of Wendy and Skipper (our experimental drones)? We can’t wait for you to find out!

Wondering how we’ve made Neuromorphic and Quantum Computing as seamless and intuitive as a no-brainer leap forward? The simple answer is in our design—and we promise to unveil the extended answers in our January press releases.

Until then, enjoy this sneak peek into the future of robotics and computing, made possible by an incredible community that believes in achieving the impossible.

Stay tuned for two releases on January 25, 2025 and May 25, 2025, as we take you back to the future. Thank you for your support, and wishing everyone joyful holidays!


P.S.: We’ve shifted our announcement to January 25, 2025, to ensure it exceeds all expectations. Great things are worth the wait—stay tuned!


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Mohamed Sobhy Fouda on LinkedIn: #rdo #salutes #salutesspace #robotonchip #spaceinfrastructure

🚀 "Skipper, follow Wendy." Controlling drones has never been this simple. With our Robot-on-Chip technology, seamlessly integrated into the CHIRB platform…

www.linkedin.com

What a shame there is no sound - at least I can’t hear anything?

 

[Frangipani]

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Mohamed Sobhy Fouda on LinkedIn: #rdo #salutes #salutesspace #robotonchip #spaceinfrastructure

🚀 "Skipper, follow Wendy." Controlling drones has never been this simple. With our Robot-on-Chip technology, seamlessly integrated into the CHIRB platform…

www.linkedin.com

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What a shame there is no sound - at least I can’t hear anything?

Also check out this website describing the CHIRB (Computing on a Hybrid Interplanetary Relay Basis) platform by Salutes Space:

https://www.chirb.de/

(I’m afraid you’ll need to ask someone else, though, to explain what this is all about… )

 

[CHIPS]

I don't hear any sound either, but I see

 

[SharesForBrekky]

https://www.embedded.com/recap-of-ces-2025-physical-ai-edge-ai-sdvs-and-more

"Prophesee Expands into Vision Sensing Applications

Prophesee attended the trade show to present the latest version of its event-based vision-sensing solutions, which enhance the efficiency and performance of vision-enabled systems and devices. By utilizing neuromorphic techniques that allow for independently activated pixels, Prophesee’s Metavision processes only the changes in events, leading to improvements in power consumption, data processing capabilities, dynamic range, and latency compared to conventional frame-based cameras."

"Suprema AI: Best Innovation Award at CES 2025

Korean embedded on-device AI company Suprema AI has received the Best Innovation Award in the embedded technology category at CES 2025 for its Q-Vision Pro. The device is an AI-powered module designed for the detection and prevention of financial crimes in standalone devices, such as Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). The hardware utilizes facial recognition and behavior analysis algorithms.

Furthermore, the device is designed to function independently of network connectivity, thereby ensuring secure operational capacity in locations where internet access may be limited or unavailable."

 

[Smoothsailing]

https://www.embedded.com/recap-of-ces-2025-physical-ai-edge-ai-sdvs-and-more

"Prophesee Expands into Vision Sensing Applications

Prophesee attended the trade show to present the latest version of its event-based vision-sensing solutions, which enhance the efficiency and performance of vision-enabled systems and devices. By utilizing neuromorphic techniques that allow for independently activated pixels, Prophesee’s Metavision processes only the changes in events, leading to improvements in power consumption, data processing capabilities, dynamic range, and latency compared to conventional frame-based cameras."

"Suprema AI: Best Innovation Award at CES 2025

Korean embedded on-device AI company Suprema AI has received the Best Innovation Award in the embedded technology category at CES 2025 for its Q-Vision Pro. The device is an AI-powered module designed for the detection and prevention of financial crimes in standalone devices, such as Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). The hardware utilizes facial recognition and behavior analysis algorithms.

Furthermore, the device is designed to function independently of network connectivity, thereby ensuring secure operational capacity in locations where internet access may be limited or unavailable."

Question…. What was that all about a few weeks back on these guys in trouble financially ?.It seems that must have been rectified, hopefully .

 

[Food4 thought]

Are we involved with this company?

About Sensory, Inc.

Sensory Inc. develops fast, accurate, and private on-device AI technologies, powering over 2 billion devices globally from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, etc. With more than 60 patents, Sensory’s innovations in speech recognition, emergency vehicle detection, voice assistants, biometrics, and natural language understanding span industries like automotive, consumer electronics, wearables, medical, and more.

 

[Food4 thought]

It sounds like Brainchip

Location is right

SENSORY’S AI VOICE TECH ENABLES VOICE CONTROL IN JABRA’S INNOVATIVE RETAIL SOLUTION​

Santa Clara, CA – January 22, 2025 — Sensory, Inc., a leader in embedded AI and voice technology, today announced its next step in their partnership with Jabra, a world-leading professional audio brand. This latest collaboration integrates Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree wake word technology into Jabra’s new Perform 75 Bluetooth headset, specifically designed for frontline workers in retail operations.
Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree, featuring phrase-spotting technology, enables users to interact with their devices using natural voice commands, going beyond simple wake word functionality. With high accuracy (95%+) and zero latency, TrulyHandsfree powers the Jabra Perform 75 with seamless, hands-free access to capabilities delivered via handhelds – like Push-to-Talk, Voice Directed Picking, and Associate AI Assistants. This makes it an ideal solution for fast-paced, noisy retail environments, allowing frontline workers to communicate easily and instantly access critical information, so they can deliver an enhanced in-store customer experience.

“This partnership with Jabra demonstrates how AI-driven voice solutions can transform entire industries,” said Todd Mozer, CEO of Sensory, Inc. “The integration of Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree into the Perform 75 showcases our ability to deliver high-accuracy, low-power consumption voice technologies that thrive in challenging, real-world environments.”

The Jabra Perform 75 joins the Perform 45 in Jabra’s portfolio of headsets designed for frontline retail workers. This latest offering is specifically tailored to meet the unique demands of shiftwork in retail operational environments, enhancing collaboration, productivity, and customer experience.

“Sensory’s technology has exceeded our high standards for accuracy, speed, and efficiency,” said Andrew Doyle, VP for Frontline Workers at Jabra. “By enabling hands-free control of key functions through voice commands, we’re boosting productivity and streamlining workflows for retail staff. This allows our frontline workers to focus on what matters most – delivering exceptional customer service.”

The Jabra Perform 75 featuring Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree technology launched last week at NRF 2025, and promises to revolutionize communication in retail environments and set a new standard for frontline worker efficiency.

About Sensory, Inc.
Sensory Inc. develops fast, accurate, and private on-device AI technologies, powering over 2 billion devices globally from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, etc. With more than 60 patents, Sensory’s innovations in speech recognition, emergency vehicle detection, voice assistants, biometrics, and natural language understanding span industries like automotive, consumer electronics, wearables, medical, and more.

About Jabra
Jabra is a world leading brand in audio, video and collaboration solutions – engineered to empower businesses. Proudly part of GN Group, we are committed to bringing people closer to one another and to what is important to them. Jabra engineering excellence leads the way, building on over 150 years of pioneering work within GN. This allows us to create integrated tools for contact centers, offices, and collaboration to help professionals work more productively from anywhere. www.jabra.com

 

[uiux]

Is Nvidia’s reign over AI chips at risk with focus on high-end GPUs? | The National

Rivals such as Amazon and Microsoft are pouring billions into more affordable AI models to challenge Nvidia’s market dominance

www.thenationalnews.com

Is Nvidia’s reign over AI chips at risk with focus on high-end GPUs?​

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This article is a wake-up call for Nvidia to adapt to the rise of low SWAP (Size, Weight, and Power) processors. While Nvidia dominates with high-performance GPUs, competitors like DeepSeek are proving that cost-effective, efficient solutions can deliver comparable AI performance by optimizing software for less powerful hardware. This mirrors Intel’s decline, where its focus on high-performance chips left it behind as the industry shifted to mobile computing. If Nvidia doesn’t embrace low SWAP processors and more energy-efficient designs, it risks losing its edge as the market increasingly prioritizes affordability and efficiency over raw power. Adapting now is critical to maintaining its leadership in the evolving AI landscape.

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Who wants to see NVidia produce a processor based on Akida IP?

Is this the moment when everyone finally understands Brainchips core value proposition?

 

[Shadow59]

Is Nvidia’s reign over AI chips at risk with focus on high-end GPUs? | The National

Rivals such as Amazon and Microsoft are pouring billions into more affordable AI models to challenge Nvidia’s market dominance

www.thenationalnews.com

Is Nvidia’s reign over AI chips at risk with focus on high-end GPUs?​

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This article is a wake-up call for Nvidia to adapt to the rise of low SWAP (Size, Weight, and Power) processors. While Nvidia dominates with high-performance GPUs, competitors like DeepSeek are proving that cost-effective, efficient solutions can deliver comparable AI performance by optimizing software for less powerful hardware. This mirrors Intel’s decline, where its focus on high-performance chips left it behind as the industry shifted to mobile computing. If Nvidia doesn’t embrace low SWAP processors and more energy-efficient designs, it risks losing its edge as the market increasingly prioritizes affordability and efficiency over raw power. Adapting now is critical to maintaining its leadership in the evolving AI landscape.

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Who wants to see NVidia produce a processor based on Akida IP?

Is this the moment when everyone finally understands Brainchips core value proposition?

This is a bit like comparing McLaren and Hyundai

 

[TECH]

Hi Believers,

Thought I'd share this photo, two things I've noticed, one I should have had my glasses on and two, is that Jensen
Huang's name on that Board Peter ? Good to stir the pot every now and then.

If you can't currently feel the positive energy around our company at the moment, well then you're dead, so much to unpack
throughout this year and into 2026....cybersecurity, healthcare and my favourite, space, the final frontier !

Here's to a positive 4C and update.......love Akida Tech

 

[uiux]

This is a bit like comparing McLaren and Hyundai

For this analogy


The industry has been using the McLaren to train and run inference for LLMs

China has just released an LLM that performs as well as the best and it can run on a beat up Datsun


Now why would people keep forking out for McLarens

 

[Smoothsailing]

Seans vision of building an Eco system of partners is certainly coming to fruition.
Andes Technology Corporation has more than 150 partner company's in their Eco system alone.
From their web site -"We aim to provide a win-win cooperative environment for our users and our partners. In this ecosystem, users and partners could communicate and work together to come up with customized total solutions".
Our overall extended Eco system now must be many multiples of the above figure.
BRN is well on their way to becoming ubiquitous.
Good luck to all fellow genuine SH, the future is looking very prosperous indeed.

I like reading things like this…. to the moon

 

[Diogenese]

This is a bit like comparing McLaren and Hyundai

@uiux

Hi UiUx,

Espacenet has 20 patent applications which refer to DeepSeek. They are all Chinese.

The earliest is from 20200325.

CN118132969A Table data processing large language model training method and device, medium and equipment 20200325

With the advent of the digital age, a large amount of data is structured in tabular form and is widely used in various industries and fields. From transaction monitoring in the banking industry to human resource management to census in government agencies, tabular data plays an irreplaceable role in modern society. Although tabular data is ubiquitous, specific tasks related to tables are usually time-consuming and labor-intensive and require professional skills. Automating these tabular tasks is of great significance to both academia and industry, and has attracted the attention of many researchers.
...


The present invention believes that expanding the reasoning process of short answers to training data can enhance the reasoning ability of large language models. Since WikiTQ and FeTaQA only provide raw table data and do not involve text information, in order to simulate the office scene of mixed text and tables in the real world, the present invention also uses GPT-3.5 to supplement the table description information.

In some embodiments, the length of the document embedding table is less than 500 tokens.

Since the answers in the training data are presented in text form, the solution of question-answer pairs is achieved through the internal parameter-driven method of the model. In connection with the form tasks in office scenarios, a constraint of less than 500 tokens is imposed on the form input in this way to ensure that the model can more accurately build the connection between questions and answers.

Since data operations on tables embedded in spreadsheets mainly involve simple table input and complex table operations, such tasks are more suitable for solving in a code-driven way. In combination with the characteristics of WikiSQL and Spider training sets corresponding to SQL queries, this example selects training data from them, and optionally expands the reasoning process of question-answer pairs into Pandas code form, for example, through the Deepseek large language model to ensure flexibility in data operations. By comparing the quality of the generated code, it is ensured that the execution results after the generated Pandas code are consistent with the original answers provided in the benchmark. Among them, for the Spider dataset, in order to better keep consistent with the needs of single-table operations in office scenarios, data with empty results after multi-table queries and SQL queries are excluded to better reflect actual applications.

Step 1: Obtain form question and answer data, wherein the form question and answer data includes a form, questions and answers.

In some embodiments, the tabular question and answer data is derived from one or more of the WikiTQ, FeTaQA, or TAT-QA datasets;

The tabular question and answer data also comes from WikiSQL and/or Spider datasets.

In the specific implementation, the initial table question answering data comes from the existing table question answering task benchmark data set. Specifically, for the query of document embedded table data, the training data is mainly collected from the widely used table question answering benchmarks, including WikiTQ, FeTaQA and TAT-QA. For the data operation of spreadsheet embedded tables, the training data is obtained from the two Text2SQL benchmarks WikiSQL and Spider.

Step 2: Input the table and question into the intelligent question-answering model to generate an extended answer to the answer, and form extended training data based on the table, question and extended answer.

In some embodiments, the intelligent question answering model includes one or more of GPT3.5, GPT4, and deepseek-coder-33B.

Step three: generate a new question based on the table, input the table and the new question into the intelligent question-answering model, and generate a first answer and a second answer based on different methods.

Step 4: Compare the first answer and the second answer for cross-validation. If the cross-validation passes, generate training data based on the table, the new question, and the first answer and/or the second answer.

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[manny100]

Apparently DeepSeek is software based so it needs hardware to function at the Edge.
AKIDA is Event based and is inherently low power. DeepSeek is not Event based.
AKIDA may well be the choice of Hardware for DeepSeek users for the Edge.
Being Event based AKIDA has fewer false positives which is essential for Defense, Civil aviation and shipping, Health and Security detection - see Brainchip and Neurobus in low power ship detection from satellite.
https://arxiv.org/html/2406.11319v1

 

[RobjHunt]

For this analogy


The industry has been using the McLaren to train and run inference for LLMs

China has just released an LLM that performs as well as the best and it can run on a beat up Datsun


Now why would people keep forking out for McLarens

Datsun insult for Nvidia

 

[Diogenese]

Apparently DeepSeek is software based so it needs hardware to function at the Edge.
AKIDA is Event based and is inherently low power. DeepSeek is not Event based.
AKIDA may well be the choice of Hardware for DeepSeek users for the Edge.
Being Event based AKIDA has fewer false positives which is essential for Defense, Civil aviation and shipping, Health and Security detection - see Brainchip and Neurobus in low power ship detection from satellite.
https://arxiv.org/html/2406.11319v1

These GenAI boffins are concerned with:
A. Training
B. Inference
C. "Reasoning".

From what I can glean, it seems DeepSeek's forte is in training, but I haven't got my head around it.

BRN of course is closely allied, one could say synergistically, with Edge Impulse in training, BRN having its one-shot, on-chip learning, which has dovetailed with Edge Impulse's automatic learning.

 

[7für7]

Hi Believers,

Thought I'd share this photo, two things I've noticed, one I should have had my glasses on and two, is that Jensen
Huang's name on that Board Peter ? Good to stir the pot every now and then.

If you can't currently feel the positive energy around our company at the moment, well then you're dead, so much to unpack
throughout this year and into 2026....cybersecurity, healthcare and my favourite, space, the final frontier !

Here's to a positive 4C and update.......love Akida Tech

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What could you try out until now with your two
Girls on the table? If you know what I mean ..

 

[Food4 thought]

What could you try out until now with your two
Girls on the table? If you know what I mean ..

Both of them are lazy suzans
So I don’t think anything all they do is go round and round and round