AI Startup's Bold Strategy: Just Do Less

Blaize argues that AI inference doesn't need ever-bigger processors but smarter data handling. Their Graph Streaming Processor (GSP) uses a hardware scheduler that understands a model's data-flow graph, keeping intermediate data flowing through the chip and minimizing costly trips to external memory. Their Hybrid AI philosophy pairs lightweight GSPs for first-stage inference with heavyweight GPUs reserved only for the cases that genuinely need them — a cascade architecture that cuts cost and power dramatically for workloads like large-scale video surveillance.