ModelNova has officially launched as an independent Edge AI company, expanding its focus on making artificial intelligence practical for power-efficient devices. The company aims to simplify Edge AI deployment by providing developers and semiconductor partners with AI models, development tools, and production-ready solutions that accelerate the journey from prototype to commercial deployment.
As demand for physical AI continues to grow, organizations are looking for efficient ways to deploy artificial intelligence directly on devices instead of relying solely on cloud infrastructure. ModelNova addresses this challenge by providing the tools and expertise needed to optimize AI models for constrained hardware environments.
The company is focused on helping developers move beyond AI model creation and successfully deploy production-ready applications across embedded and AI-accelerated silicon platforms.
"Every technology wave lives or dies on whether developers can actually build with it, and Edge AI is at that inflection point now. The gap between a working model and a shipping product is what's holding the industry back — ModelNova is focused on precisely that problem, and its launch is a meaningful step for the whole ecosystem," said Michael Hurlston, President and CEO, Lumentum.
ModelNova's platform consists of three integrated offerings designed to simplify the Edge AI lifecycle.
Model Zoo provides a free open-source library of pre-trained AI models, datasets, and implementation blueprints optimized for low-power hardware. Developers can quickly validate AI applications across supported semiconductor platforms.
Fusion Studio is a commercial development platform that manages the complete AI deployment process, including model optimization, runtime integration, and silicon-specific tuning for both MCU and NPU architectures.
The company also offers production-ready AI models for commercial deployment. These include NovaEyeD for facial recognition and multiple wireless sensing models supporting applications such as motion detection, occupancy sensing, and automotive child presence detection using WiFi, UWB, and mmWave technologies.
ModelNova has partnered with several leading semiconductor vendors including ARM, STMicroelectronics, Infineon, Alif Semiconductor, NXP, Silicon Labs, Renesas, Synaptics, and Ceva. The company is also a Leadership Partner of the EDGE AI FOUNDATION, supporting industry collaboration around Edge AI research and adoption.
According to the company, its Model Zoo already powers Edge AI ecosystems for multiple silicon vendors and has been validated across consumer electronics, medical devices, and AIoT deployments.
"The Alif Ensemble Series was built to bring real AI inference to power-efficient silicon, and ModelNova has been the partner proving what's possible on it — from free Zoo models to production-ready deployments optimized for our MCUs. Their launch as an independent company gives developers an even clearer path from concept to product, and that's exactly what this partnership has always been about," said Reza Kazerounian, Co-Founder & President at Alif Semiconductor.
ModelNova has evolved from more than two decades of engineering experience at embedUR systems. Over the past 18 months, the company has expanded its Edge AI capabilities to support production deployments and broader semiconductor ecosystems.
Its focus is to help organizations bridge the gap between AI experimentation and commercial product development by combining reusable AI building blocks with deployment-focused engineering tools.
"ModelNova began as our answer to a simple question: why is it still so hard to turn a working AI model into a real product at the edge? Establishing ModelNova as an independent company lets us go after that problem with full focus — giving developers a free place to start, a platform to build on, and production-ready models they can license and ship," said Rajesh Subramaniam, CEO & Founder of embedUR systems.
"When we started the EDGE AI FOUNDATION, we believed that if you brought silicon vendors, researchers, and developers together around shared knowledge, the market would respond with real companies solving real deployment problems. ModelNova's launch as an independent company — spanning open-source models, professional tooling, and production licensing — is exactly the kind of maturation we hoped to see. It's a proud moment for the whole Edge AI community," said Pete Bernard, CEO of the EDGE AI FOUNDATION.
ModelNova's launch reflects the increasing demand for scalable Edge AI infrastructure that enables developers to deploy AI workloads efficiently across embedded hardware. With its combination of open-source resources, commercial development tools, and production-ready AI models, the company aims to simplify Edge AI adoption while accelerating innovation across industries.
ModelNova is an embedUR systems company built to serve the Edge AI silicon ecosystem — AI-focused semiconductor vendors and the developers and product teams building on their chips. By pairing ready-to-use building blocks with silicon-aware tooling, ModelNova helps chipmakers and their customers turn AI ambitions into shipping products. Learn more at modelnova.com.
embedUR systems is a Silicon Valley-based engineering company with over two decades of expertise spanning firmware, connectivity, and device intelligence, serving the world's leading networking, telecom, and connectivity providers. embedUR is the parent company of ModelNova.
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