This blog post was originally published at Ambarella’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Ambarella.
For this year’s CES, our theme was Your GenAI Edge—highlighting how Ambarella’s AI SoCs continue to redefine what’s possible with generative AI at the edge. Building on last year’s edge GenAI demos, we debuted a new 25-stream, multi-channel demo, combining video decoding with visual analytics powered by the CLIP and LLaVA One-Vision models. We also debuted our first automotive and fleet GenAI demonstrations, as well as a real-world vision-language model (VLM) implementation by autonomous trucking customer Kodiak. Over the course of four packed days, we had hundreds of customer, investor, press, analyst and partner meetings that showcased our latest innovations in edge AI. Check out this short recap video…
In total, we had nearly 40 demos—breaking our previous record for indoor demos by four. From Automotive to Security, along with Robotics, Videoconferencing and Action Cameras, our demonstrations spanned a wide range of on-device and on-premise applications, showcasing how we can deliver high-performance and power-efficient GenAI and vision AI at the edge. Additionally, we debuted our new Partner Showcase room with numerous next-generation products and demonstrations from our continuously growing ecosystem.
Most of our visitors also took drives in our two demo vehicles, both running on a CV3-AD SoC AI domain controller. One vehicle featured our latest Oculii™ centralized-radar demo, running five 4D imaging radars and displaying point clouds of the surrounding environment in real time—with enough detail to identify individual pedestrians walking by! The second showcased both live GenAI VLM scene analysis, and traditional-CNN camera + radar perception/fusion for the volume L2+ market—one of the world’s first VLM + sensor fusion driving demos, as shown in the below screen capture…
Some of the other highlights from our exhibition include the first-ever display showing samples of the full Continental/Ambarella Joint ECU Portfolio, robotics fleet telematics & control featuring LLMs and multi-chip cooperation, customer LG’s live driver monitoring system (DMS) demo (currently in production with a global automotive OEM), an LLM running on CV3-AD that described automotive scenes, and a CV75 reference design demonstrating transformer-based AI search for home security cameras.
During CES, we announced our new N1-655 edge GenAI SoC, targeting on-premise, multi-channel VLM and NN processing in under 20 watts. This latest member of our N1 family is ideal for on-premise AI boxes, autonomous robotics and smart city security, bringing high-performance GenAI to power- and cost-constrained edge applications—consuming a fraction of the power needed by cloud processors.
We also announced an ecosystem collaboration with DeepEdge to integrate their end-to-end AI development platform with our portfolio of edge AI SoCs. Debuting during CES, the DeepEdge.ai Platform, combined with their Virtual Benchmark Lab, is designed to deliver an accelerated AI developer journey, streamlining the AI lifecycle—from data preparation and model training to optimization, deployment and monitoring—for Ambarella’s entire portfolio of CVflow® edge AI SoCs.
If you missed us this year, we’re offering customers and partners virtual guided tours featuring videos from all of our show demos. Contact your Ambarella representative to schedule.
