Formant was founded by software engineers, roboticists, and product managers from leading technology companies with the mission to bridge the gap between autonomous systems and the people running them.

Qualcomm is a leader in high-performance, low-power microprocessors for mobile, IoT, and robotics. alwaysAI supports the company’s Snapdragon platform as well as it’s Robotics RB3 platform. The two companies recently collaborated on a computer vision for eldercare application for AWS:reinvent.

Seeed, an AIoT Hardware Service Platform, has been serving the global developer community since 2008, by providing open technology and agile manufacturing services, with the mission to make hardware more accessible and lower the threshold for hardware innovation.

Hailo, an AI-focused, Israel-based chipmaker, has developed a specialized artificial intelligence (AI) processor that delivers the performance of a data center-class computer to edge devices. Hailo's AI processor reimagines traditional computer architecture, enabling smart devices to perform sophisticated deep learning tasks such as object detection and segmentation in real-time, with minimal power consumption, size, and cost.

NVIDIA is a leader in high-performance GPUs for IoT, servers, and desktops. alwaysAI supports the NVIDIA Jetson line of products and is a member of NVIDIA’s Inception and Metropolis program. NVIDIA Jetson users can find optimized models for pose estimation in the alwaysAI model catalog as well as NVIDIA-specific starter applications. alwaysAI recently presented at NVIDIA’s GTC conference.

Arm is a leading technology provider of silicon IP for the intelligent System-on-Chips; the company’s technology is at the heart of billions of devices globally. alwaysAI is a member of the Arm AI Partner program and works closely with a number of Arm-based edge device companies.