General Instinct (YC P26) Aims to Run Frontier AI Models on Edge Devices
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Crisped on the outside, thoughtful enough on the inside.
Summary
General Instinct, founded by Guanming and Bill (YC P26), addresses the challenge of running frontier AI models on edge devices. The founders, with robotics backgrounds, identified that the best-performing models are designed for datacenter environments (large GPUs, high memory bandwidth, reliable networking), while physical systems have opposite constraints. Their work focuses on preserving as much of a frontier model's capability as possible while making it practical to run on edge hardware.
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The models that performed best were usually designed around datacenter assumptions: large GPUs, lots of memory bandwidth, and reliable network access. But most physical systems have the opposite constraints.
That led us down the path of figuring out how much of a frontier model could be preserved while still making it practical to run on edge hardware.
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