With the surge in demand for edge AI, enterprises are struggling to cope with deployment complexity, infrastructure strain and a fragmented hardware landscape. Clika’s unified platform addresses these challenges directly by simplifying the process of optimizing and deploying AI to edge devices such as smartphones, IoT endpoints, autonomous vehicles and industrial robotics.
Together, the two companies will build enterprise-friendly edge AI products for deployment at a large-scale secure edge. The collaboration will help bring high-performance, compact AI models to cross-industry real-world devices, opening up strategic advantages and new business opportunities to global customers.
Raj Wickramasinghe, global lead for Infrastructure Engineering, Accenture, said, “Edge computing is now a critical part of the AI lifecycle. Today's enterprises need seamless intelligence at the edge. Through this investment and collaboration, we can bring CLIKA's technology—which allows intelligent models to run on devices not originally designed for AI—to our enterprise clients, delivering the efficiency and precision needed to make edge AI practical scalable. ”
At the heart of the Clika platform is its proprietary software development kit (SDK), which automatically compresses and optimizes the AI model of a wide range of hardware goals, including CPUs and low-power devices. Each deployment is uniquely tuned for its environment – latency speed and accuracy without a lot of manual intervention or customization. The collaboration enhances Accenture's leading capabilities in building the next-generation AI infrastructure for edge devices, while expanding Clika's global footprint and reach.
“At Clika, we believe that powerful AI belongs to everyday devices,” said Nayul Lina Kim, co-founder and CEO of Clika. “This investment and collaboration with Accenture Ventures has enabled us to bring this vision to life, providing businesses with a smooth and effective way to deploy AI in real-time scenarios in the real world, making the most impact.”
“The rapid growth of AI and the complexity that comes with it are faster, simpler, and smarter deployments.” “Through this investment, we are providing Clika with strategic market access to enterprise customers and working to deploy advanced models at the edge and put intelligence where it matters most.”
Clika will also join Accenture Ventures' Project Spotlight, a vertical accelerator for data and AI companies. Project Spotlight provides extensive access to Accenture’s domain expertise and its corporate clients, helping start-ups leverage creativity and realize their technology’s hope.
Investment terms are not disclosed.
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About Krika
Clika is an AI compression platform for fast, secure and scalable model deployment. Its fully automated SDK converts large models into compact, accelerated and hardware-optimized versions in minutes – deployable in cloud, on-premises and edge environments. Clika bridges the critical gap between AI development and real-world deployment, thus making the next era of physical AI. Learn more at www.clika.io.
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