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EdgeRunner AI<\/a> raised $17.5M, including a $12M Series A led by Madrona Ventures, to develop air-gapped, on-device AI for military and enterprise use.\u00a0<\/p>\n The funding will support team growth, product development, and the creation of domain-specific AI agents for warfighters.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOur mission is to build domain-specific AI agents that increase the probability of our warfighters winning the fight and bringing them home,\u201d says Tyler Saltsman, Co-Founder & CEO at EdgeRunner AI. \u201cWith this new funding, we will grow our team, invest in product development, and execute on our vision.\u201d<\/p>\n The company specializes in hyper-personalized, on-device AI assistants that operate without internet connectivity, enhancing security, privacy, and efficiency in challenging environments. The platform uses open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) optimized for local devices and offers features like chat, Q&A, translation, transcription, and tool integrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n EdgeRunner AI has partnered with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to develop AI agents tailored to Air Force occupational specialties. The company was designated as an \u201cAwardable<\/a>\u201d vendor for the Department of Defense\u2019s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, supporting critical DoD missions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Recent partnerships include collaborations with Intel to deliver on-device AI agents for Intel AI PCs.<\/p>\n EdgeRunner represents a vanguard for secure, autonomous, and hyper-localized AI at the edge. Their model is not only a technological milestone for the military, but also a harbinger for broader enterprise adoption of sovereign edge AI, particularly where connectivity is unreliable, latency is intolerant, or data must never leave the device.<\/p>\n EdgeRunner pioneers secure, autonomous, and hyper-localized AI at the edge. This technological advancement signifies a key development for military applications and foreshadows widespread enterprise integration of sovereign edge AI<\/a>, especially in environments with poor connectivity, strict latency requirements, or critical data security needs.<\/p>\n \n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tArticle Topics<\/p>\n AI\/ML<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 air-gapped computing<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 defense technology<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 edge AI<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 EdgeRunner AI<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 LLM inference<\/a> \u00a0|\u00a0 sovereign AI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EdgeRunner AI raised $17.5M, including a $12M Series A led by Madrona Ventures, to develop air-gapped, on-device AI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[26000,43246,3284,12518,15497,43247,43248,43249,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-91373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-ai-ml","9":"tag-air-gapped-computing","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-defense-technology","12":"tag-edge-ai","13":"tag-edgerunner-ai","14":"tag-llm-inference","15":"tag-sovereign-ai","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114486364531528193","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}