Mirai Tech has secured $10 million in seed funding led by Uncork Capital to simplify on-device AI de...
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The article introduces a new player in the AI infrastructure layer focused on edge/on-device inference, though the $10M seed round does not trigger cross.§D.
Mirai Tech has secured $10 million in seed funding led by Uncork Capital to simplify on-device AI deployment, enabling developers to tap smartphone and laptop NPUs with just a few lines of code. Founded by the creators of Reface and Prisma, the startup targets a critical gap: while billions of devices already house AI accelerators, most developers still rely on expensive cloud inference that costs per request. With mobile NPUs now approaching 2017 data-center GPU performance and delivering 2.6x better power efficiency than cloud alternatives, 2026 marks the inflection point where edge AI becomes mainstream. This shift eliminates latency issues and slashes operational costs for real-time text, voice, and vision applications at scale. The infrastructure layer for local AI inference is rapidly becoming the next battleground in democratizing AI deployment.
