applied brain research
Edge AI · Artificial Intelligence
Seedlatest round · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
2backers · Silicon Catalyst, Garage Capital
10+team · employees, estimated range
17stories in the press
Overview
Discover edge AI solutions built on efficient state space models. Real-time speech, DSP, and on-device intelligence for modern devices.
Funding and backers
Latest round
Seed
Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
2
Silicon Catalyst, Garage Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
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Sep 21
Launched Applied Brain Research Releases the ABR SDK, Bringing Real-Time On-Device Voice Interfaces to Edge Applications · CNWGroup
Jan 12
Raised a round Seed · PRNewswire
Nov 17, 2025
Board appointment Applied Brain Research Appoints Eva Lau, Co-founder of Two Small Fish Ventures, to Board of Directors · PRNewswire
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Jan 2026 | — | — | PRNewswire |
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Financials
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
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Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2026 | — | Details |
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News
Applied Brain Research Releases the ABR SDK, Bringing Real-Time On-Device Voice Interfaces to Edge Applications
The post Applied Brain Research Releases the ABR SDK, Bringing Real-Time On-Device Voice Interfaces to Edge Applications appeared first on abr.
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Applied Brain Research Releases the ABR SDK, Bringing Real-Time On-Device Voice Interfaces to Edge Applications
/CNW/ -- Applied Brain Research (ABR) today announced general availability of the ABR SDK and the Niagara ASR and Nith TTS model families, a production toolkit...
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The ABR SDK: A Production Stack for Real-Time Voice at the Edge
ABR's ASR models fill a critical niche on the Hugging Face ASR Leaderboard, achieving high accuracy levels with parameter counts well below alternatives. Our abr-ai/niagara-19m-batch.en and abr-ai/niagara-38m-batch.en models transcribe speech as accuratel
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You Can't Shrink Your Way to an Edge Model
There is only one way most teams know how to make a small model: start with a big one and take things away. Distill it, prune it, quantize it, and keep going until it fits on the device. It is a reasonable instinct, and it produces reasonable results. It
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Big Voice, Small Footprint: ABR Nith TTS at 5.5M Parameters
More and more, teams building voice-first products in AR glasses, robotics, automotive, and consumer devices want both ends of the voice I/O to live on the device. The reasons are the ones we covered in our recent post on cloud voice economics: cost, late
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Introducing Niagara: A New Class of ASR
Updated September 8, 2026 In my previous post, I introduced State Space Models (SSMs) and explained why they matter for edge AI. Today, we're putting that theory into practice with Niagara-38m - a new ASR model that sets a new best-in-class benchmark for
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The (Not So) Hidden Costs of Cloud Voice AI
It's a surprising fact that in many of our customer engagements, we've heard about the cost pains of voice-first usage in AR smartglasses and robots across multiple segments. It's common to hear of individual devices generating $50 to $100 per device per
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Why State Space Models Are the Future of Edge AI
The promise of edge AI is straightforward: machines will interact with people as agents in a natural and secure way - anywhere and any time. To fulfill this promise, AI capabilities need to be more broadly enabled on edge devices, reducing network depende
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Applied Brain Research Raises Seed Round To Scale On-Device Voice AI With TSP1 Edge Chip
Applied Brain Research (ABR) announced it has closed an oversubscribed seed funding round to accelerate development and commercialization of its TSP1
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Waterloo
Canada
HQ
10-50 est. staff
200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON, CA