AI Training on Milliwatts

What if your edge devices could learn on their own? Today, they can't. AI models ship static and stay that way, falling behind as real-world conditions shift. Updating them means cloud retraining that costs thousands and takes days. Vellex changes that: personalized, continuous AI training directly on-device, at milliwatt power.

Key Benefits

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Train AI on<10mW

less power than a Bluetooth radio.

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 17,000x Faster Training

benchmarked at Stanford & Berkeley Lab.

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Minutes, Not Days

vs. hours/days for cloud retraining.

AI That Learns in the Field

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    Satellite & Remote Sensing

    On-orbit training distinguishes valuable scenes from noise with dramatically higher precision, downlinking only what matters.

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    Drones

    Each mission sharpens the model. Drones gain real-time obstacle avoidance and adaptive search-and-rescue for rapidly changing terrain.

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    Industrial Robotics

    Robots that improve daily, minimizing downtime and mistakes while eliminating defects, false alarms, and quality issues on the factory floor.

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    Wearables & Hearables

    Personalized voice and gesture models that train locally, with no data leaving the device.

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     Entertainment & Gaming

    Private mood-based playlists. In gaming, enemies learn and adapt to the player, making every session unique.

The Problem: AI on Edge devices can't Learn

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The real world keeps changing. Your models don't.

Today's edge devices ship with static AI models, fixed at the moment of training and unable to adapt as real-world conditions shift.

When performance degrades, the only option is a costly loop: collect data, send it to the cloud, retrain, push an update, and hope conditions haven't changed by the time it arrives. This process takes hours to days, costs thousands per cycle, and is often impossible where bandwidth is limited or data can't leave the device.

The architecture behind this was built for a different era. It's slow, power-hungry, and impossible to scale. The intelligence is always a step behind the world it's supposed to understand.

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    The Energy-Intelligence Gap

    AI training requires watts of GPU power. For battery-operated edge hardware, that makes on-device learning physically impossible.

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    The Bandwidth Bottleneck

    Updating a static model means transmitting raw data to the cloud, creating latency, driving up infrastructure costs, and exposing sensitive data to security risks.

The Solution: Computing with Physics

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The bottleneck isn't speed. It's the architecture.

Most AI hardware works harder to go faster. Vellex took a different approach. Instead of iterating toward a solution millions of times, our system uses analog physics to settle at the answer naturally, the way a ball finds the bottom of a bowl.



Iterative search: Calculate → Check → Repeat
Millions of steps | Watts of power.




Physics-based optimization: the system settles at the solution naturally.
One step | Milliwatts.

Traditional AI training is a brute-force optimization problem: discretizecalculate → check → repeat, consuming watts of power and hours of time to converge on the right answer. Vellex maps that same optimization onto a physical system that resolves it near-instantly, at a fraction of the energy.
The result is a programmable analog IP block that delivers optimal model weights at milliwatt power and nanosecond-scale speed. It sits alongside standard ARM or RISC-V cores. Engineers work in familiar ML frameworks; our compiler handles the rest. No analog expertise required.

The Market Opportunity

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Edge AI hardware:  a $59B market by 2030

The global edge AI hardware market is projected to reach $59 billion by 2030, driven by growth in autonomous systems, smart infrastructure, and real-time sensing. A key barrier to realizing this potential: edge devices can run AI, but most still can't train it. Not on battery power. Not at scale.

Vellex addresses this directly. Our physics-based analog IP makes continuous on-device learning practical for the first time, enabling new capabilities in markets where cloud retraining is too slow, too expensive, or simply not an option: satellite and remote sensing, industrial robotics, drones, and wearable technology.

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Our Supporters

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Backed by leading institutions in science, computing, and deep tech.

Latest in the News

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Vellex Showcases Analog Intelligence at Tough Tech Week Demo Day in Boston

Tough Tech Demo Day

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    November 20, 2025

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    Meghesh Saini

Vellex Showcases Analog Intelligence at Tough Tech Week Demo Day in Boston

Vellex Computing participated in Tough Tech Week 2025 Demo Day in Cambridge, showcasing its Analog Intelligence Platform to investors and deep-tech leaders. CEO Palak Jain presented Vellex’s low-power, high-speed analog AI capabilities and engaged with partners across the tough-tech ecosystem.

Vellex Computing Showcases the Future of Analog Intelligence at Plug and Play

FEATURED

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    September 10, 2025

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    Meghesh Saini

Vellex Computing Showcases the Future of Analog Intelligence at Plug and Play

Vellex Computing proudly announced its participation in last week’s Plug and Play Summit, where CEO Dr. Palak Jain delivered an insightful presentation on the company’s vision for the future of computation: Analog Intelligence for the Analog World. Real-Time Grid Simulation, Energy-Efficient Computing and Industrial Applications Beyond Energy were also presented.

Vellex awarded Competitive Grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation

ACHIEVEMENTS

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    September 16, 2025

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    Meghesh Saini

Vellex awarded Competitive Grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation

We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant. This milestone marks a significant recognition of our pioneering work in developing physics-inspired computing solutions that transform the way complex control and optimization problems are solved.

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