AI on the Edge - Interview with Krishna Rangasayee, Founder and CEO of SiMa.ai

I had a great time with Krishna Rangasayee, Founder & CEO of SiMa.ai, diving into AI at the edge, defense-grade requirements, and building products people actually use.

We unpacked why “efficiency per watt” matters more than headline benchmarks, and how to make multimodal workloads (vision, language, sensor fusion) run in real time on low power. Krishna shared a builder’s view of the stack - toolchains, quantization, compilation, and observability - so teams can ship updates without breaking latency budgets.

We also explored defense applications: on-device processing for privacy and resiliency, deterministic behavior, and long hardware lifecycles. If you care about taking AI out of the lab and into the world, this one’s for you.

Sima.ai is going to present their work at the DefenseML 2025 conference: https://machinelearning.co.il/lp-events/defenseml-en-25/