Here Comes the Sun: A New Wave of Solar-Powered AI at the Edge

For decades, those four words--not to be confused with a hit Daft Punk song--have both driven fear into developers and driven sales. However, as the energy burdens for the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, crypto currencies and artificial intelligence (AI) increase, a fifth word is necessary: greener. Xnor.ai (Xnor) isn't scared of the "greener" challenges facing industries today, and the unveiling of its new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technologies proves so. "Power will become the biggest bottleneck to scaling AI," said Ali Farhadi, co-founder of Xnor. "What Xnor has proved today is that it is now possible to run AI inference at such low power that you don't even need a battery. This will change not only the way products are built in the future, but how entire cities and countries deploy AI solutions at scale."