Market landscapes / Specialized Modalities
Edge & On-Device AI companies
Running models on the device instead of in a data centre: phones, vehicles, cameras and embedded hardware. Power, memory and latency are the constraints, so it draws a different kind of engineer from the rest of this market. 15 companies, 11 hiring.
Updated 12 October 2026
15 companies
2 acquired
11 hiring now
The rest of the Specialized Modalities landscape
The full map, including the sub-sectors too small to list separately.
The whole Specialized Modalities mapComputer Vision Platforms 20Voice & Speech AI 15Generative Media (Image, Video, Audio, 3D) 12
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