Uptime Industries takes a bet on the AI infrastructure on the spot with a “Ai-in-A-Box” portable device called Lemony AI.
The size of a sandwich, Lemon ai It can perform a large language model (LLM), AI agents and AI work flows at a node. Each lemon requires only 65 watts power to run, the equivalent of charging a laptop, and can be stacked and connected to form larger AI clusters.
Sascha Buehrle, co -founder and Managing Director of UPTIME, told TechCrunch that each hub can maintain a LLM up to 75 billion in size parameters and can accommodate open source models or closed versions. In a lemon nod complex, each device can perform a different model.
Uptime starts with corporate relationships with IBM and Jetbrains to provide its customers easier access to AI models, including IBM closed models.
Like most technology businesses, the idea for Lemony AI came from a side project: Uptime, Buehrle and Ivan Kuleshov co-founders, were trying to figure out if they could distribute the language models to Raspberry Pi’s micro-auditors, and while they were not initially relevant to AI, Raspberry P could handle.
When they realized that models running on local devices could prove the key to unlock more AI adoption than organizations-for example, businesses that do not want to use cloud-based models-they were finished to build their own device. He realized that they are going small with emphasis on the privacy of the data could get companies to adopt the AI faster.
‘We need to build something small that can easily go to the groups and which one [does] It does not require any decision-making across the organization-by bringing on-premise AI genetic solutions to business groups, basically, “Buehrle said. Small and powerful devices can help the system grow depending on the needs of a customer, he added.
The company says it has already seen strong demand from businesses in industries that have been largely regulated such as funding, health care and law.
“Everything stays in your box,” Buehrle said. “So your documents, your files.
UPTIME has so far raised $ 2 million in a round of real -life seed funding, involving graduates, jetbrains and some angel investors. The company will use the funds to further develop its devices.
Starting says that the plan now is to get the software it has developed for the computers of Micro AI, Lemony OS, to work on material of other companies such as Nvidia dgx spark. It also wants to extend the software from a user’s current focus to one that can be used by groups.
Lemony AI costs $ 499 a month for use and can be approached up to five users.
