Trailblaizing end-to-end AI application development for the edge: Blaize releases AI Studio

You might not know it by reading this news, but Blaize is an AI chip company. Blaize is now boldly going where none of its ilk has gone before, releasing a software development product. And that’s not the only reason AI Studio is interesting
Blaize is among the many contenders in the AI chip space, sprung out of the renaissance brought on to hardware research and development by the proliferation of machine learning workloads. Although its architecture is interesting in its own right, the occasion to connect was something different.
Blaize just launched its AI Studio solution, which it touts as the industry’s first open and code-free software platform to span the complete edge AI operational workflow, dramatically reducing deployment time, complexity, and cost.
That’s a lot of promises for an IDE, coming from an AI chip company, no less. ZDNet connected with Blaize CEO Dinakar Munagala and VP R&D Dmitry Zakharchenko to explore AI Studio, its potential and philosophy, and where it fits in Blaize’s strategy.
Munagala and his co-founders, who were previously building graphics chips for Intel, started Blaize almost nine years ago, “pretty much from my spare bedroom” as per Munagala. They left because they wanted to build a new processor for emerging workloads — a move ahead of its time, and ahead of Intel itself.