Blaize and Starshine are partnering to deploy a hybrid AI platform for smart city and other applications in India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and China.
Edge artificial intelligence (AI) computing specialist Blaize is deploying its AI hybrid platform in collaboration with AI infrastructure solutions company Starshine Computing Power Technology across Asia.
The collaboration aims to drive real-world hybrid AI deployment across the continent through scalable infrastructure, powering smart cities, industrial automation, and intelligent public services.
Hybrid AI solutions for smart cities
The agreement carries a minimum value of $120m in revenue over the initial 18-month term and will initially focus on opportunities to deploy Blaize’s hybrid AI solutions for smart city applications.
Blaize and Starshine will also accelerate software development to expand into additional industries. Deployments will target key countries, including India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and China, with use cases aligned to their AI infrastructure priorities.
“This is the beginning of real-world AI infrastructure at scale,” said Dinakar Munagala, co-founder and CEO of Blaize. “Asia represents a $112bn opportunity for next generation intelligent systems, and inference is leading the charge.
“Our hybrid AI platform is designed to deliver the efficiency, flexibility, power, and support for multimodal workloads to meet this surge, especially at the edge. Together with Starshine, we’re providing sovereign-grade infrastructure where programmable, energy-efficient inference becomes the backbone of smart cities, industrial environment, and public services.”
Blaize’s GSP-based (graph streaming processor) AI platform is designed to anchor next-generation computing clusters for smart cities, industry, and agriculture. Blaize and Starshine will deliver a new class of hybrid AI computing clusters, integrating Blaize’s GSP-based inference accelerators to complement GPU-based infrastructure.
They claim rollout can cut energy use, lower total cost of ownership, process multimodal data streams, and enable real-time, localised decision-making at the edge.
The hybrid AI platform rollout will target high-growth sectors, including:
- Smart city surveillance: high-efficiency, multi-node AI video analytics across urban environments
- Retail and security: edge AI for low-latency insights in real-time retail operations
- Smart industry: automation and predictive maintenance in manufacturing, logistics, and energy
- AgTech and smart irrigation: scalable AI for resource optimisation across APAC agriculture
“Hybrid AI is no longer an experiment; it’s infrastructure,” said Teng Ma, chairman of Starshine. “Blaize delivers exactly what our customers demand: flexibility, power efficiency, multimodal support, and scalability. This partnership gives us the technology and capability to meet surging demand across Asia for real-time, localised intelligence.”
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Quelle/Source: Smart Cities World, 21.07.2025
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