PRESS RELEASE

Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2024 - Rapid.Space introduces at MWC 2024 EdgePOD AI, a new option for all models of its EdgePOD edge cloud appliance family that delivers AI at the edge. Powered by an ever extending list of open source large language models (LLM), EdgePOD AI provides AI chat, AI text completion, AI translation, AI image generation. NVDIA L4 low-power GPU provides 5x to 10x acceleration compared to CPU while reducing CO2 emissions by at least 50%. 

Thanks to EdgePOD AI, businesses and governments can protect their trade secrets or sensitive information from monitoring by foreign entities. And with EdgePOD AI, unrestricted AI becomes available in regions where AI is either forbidden or limited.

Each EdgePOD AI provides simple user interface and APIs for developers to experiment LLMs and integrate them to business applications such as ERP, CRM, digital workspace, etc. EdgePOD AI includes Eclipse Theia Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), making it an ideal platform for developers to implement AI proof-of-concepts in privacy sensitive business environments.

EdgePOD AI user interface for AI experimentation

About Rapid.Space

Rapid.Space is a resilient 5G edge cloud operator whose international, Fully Open infrastructure is based on principles of openness, transparency, portability and reversibility: open source software, open hardware and open operating procedures. As a co-founder of the SimpleRAN initiative, a member of the Open Compute Project, Euclidia and EANGTI, Rapid.Space strives to be at the forefront of the development of an edge computing infrastructure capable of meeting the challenges of the splinternet, protection of trade secret and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

Contact

Jean-Paul Smets - PDG
Tel: +33 (0)6 29 02 44 25
Mail: jp (at) rapid.space

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