Low-energy edge AI specialist Blaize is partnering Asia-based AI infrastructure provider Starshine to roll-out its AI technology across the Asia Pacific region. The two companies will deploy Blaize’s technology on scalable infrastructure to enable real-time localised AI for smart city, intelligent public services and industrial automation in the region.

The new APAC-based Blaize AI hybrid edge infrastructure is seen as particularly aimed at cities and states applying it to manage urban growth and address climate resilience.

The agreement carries a minimum value of $120 million in revenue over the initial 18-month term and will initially focus on deployments of Blaize’s hybrid AI solutions for smart city applications.

Blaize and Starshine will also accelerate software development to expand into additional industries. Deployments will target key countries, including India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and China. Use cases will be aligned to their AI infrastructure priorities.

Blaize’s GSP-based (Graph Streaming Processor) AI platform is designed to anchor next-generation computing clusters for smart cities, industry, and agriculture. Blaize and Starshine will deliver hybrid AI computing clusters, integrating Blaize’s GSP-based inference accelerators to complement GPU-based infrastructure.

“This is the beginning of real-world AI infrastructure at scale,” said Dinakar Munagala, co-founder and CEO of Blaize. “Asia represents a $112B opportunity for next generation intelligent systems, and inference is leading the charge. Our hybrid AI platform is designed to deliver the efficiency, flexibility, power, and support for multimodal workloads to meet this surge, especially at the edge. Together with Starshine, we’re providing sovereign-grade infrastructure where programmable, energy-efficient inference becomes the backbone of smart cities, industrial environment, and public services.”

“Hybrid AI is no longer an experiment; it’s infrastructure,” said Teng Ma, Chairman of Starshine. “Blaize delivers exactly what our customers demand: flexibility, power efficiency, multimodal support, and scalability. This partnership gives us the technology and capability to meet surging demand across Asia for real-time, localised intelligence.”