The Edge AI and Vision Alliance has announced that ENERZAi’s AI inference engine, Optimium, has been selected as the winner of the Product of the Year Award in the Best Edge AI development platform category.

This award recognizes the innovation and achievements of the industry’s leading companies that are developing building block technologies and components to enable Edge AI applications and technologies – not limited to just vision.

ENERZAi is an AI startup company dedicated to delivering the best AI experience on everything for everyone. They specialize in Ai inference optimization, a crucial technology for deploying and utilizing AI models effectively and efficiently in real-world environments. The award-winning product, Optimium, is the next-generation AI inference engine that significantly accelerates AI inference on target hardware without compromising accuracy, while also enabling convenient deployment of AI models. With a current focus on inference optimization for CPUs, Optimium outperforms existing inference engines in both speed and efficiency.

Optimium empowers device manufacturers to significantly enhance Edge AI capabilities by improving speed & throughput. It also helps Fabless & IP companies unlock greater AI performance for their clients. ENERZAi further provides low-bit & low-memory AI models - combined with their highly optimized kernels powered by Optimium - to run efficiently on edge devices.

“We are honored and thankful to the Edge AI and Vision Alliance for this prestigious recognition. We are more than happy to kick-off this journey with this amazing award” said Hanhim Chang, CEO of ENERZAi.

ENERZAi will be showcasing Optimium at the 2025 Embedded Vision Summit, taking place May 20-22 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the U.S.