Probably best not to say such things when you have no idea what I was tasked with bringing to market. I was involved in the early adoption of the internet as a commerce and trading platform. Just like in BRN's case, there were entrenched players who didn't want to give up their dominant position. Like most innovations, we used the "thin edge of the wedge" approach, finding channels to market with specific applications that proved up the viability of the technology for broad markets. In fact, we solved a problem that had been a major roadblock for the adoption of the internet for commerce, that being inability of existing implementations to maintain state while navigating from one page to another on a website. We solved an issue that was preventing widespread adoption.
This is, in my opinion, what BRN has failed to do. They have not identified specific weaknesses in specific applications and effectively promoted an alternative solution. Their marketing is very low key, almost to the extent that it seems they don't want to offend existing players. So much of what we see and hear from the company is either academic (so many papers) or generalistic (low power use for example). The latter is certainly a feature of Akida but we have yet to see the company be able to convince a major buyer that it would be of enough benefit to them, or their products, to commit to its use.
And yet, for all we know, they may have already achieved just that. However, their lack of disclosure around company progress is such that we simply can't tell. As Sean asked us to do, I have been watching the financials but have yet to see anything approaching commercial success. I have been a believer and investor n this technology for 8 years but its starting to feel uncomfortably like a VHS V Beta situation. The big GPU/CPU suppliers might not have as good a product as Akida but so far they are winning the marketing and sales war.
FWIW and always DYOR.
Hi Toasty.
As I understand it the "thin end of the wedge" approach they are taking and concentrating their efforts on is the "at the edge" market.
PVDM has previously stated that SNN's are suitable and advantageously applicable to all sorts of things including Data centres and Artificial General Intelligence.
But, they have hit upon "Edge" applications as the fastest path to commercialisation, precisely because this is where our particular technological offering has the most obvious and immediate advantages.
Be that in autonomy, power usage, physical scale etc or SWAP as it has been abbreviated.
Unfortunately to date, the only "known" fruit they have been able to harvest from this still relatively nascent and undeveloped field have been both pretty small and shrivelled samples.
I guess most of their input thus far has been involved in the preparation, cultivation and planting out which they call establishing eco systems and inculcating themselves within universities and other teaching bodies and showing their wares at various "farmers markets".
For me what has been lacking is the "killer application" that is so desirable or of such necessity that it immediately finds and satisfies the hunger of a large and growable market.
For Apple it was first the iPod followed up by the iPhone.
For Nvidia it has been their GPU's facilitating and empowering first gaming and more recently LLM's and other high intensity compute apps.
Proposed possibilities for us have been in drones and wearables, anything really which stands to benefit directly from our advantageous SWAP characteristics as outlined above.
But it maybe also lies in the realm of cyber security where our unusual architecture provides us with some unique characteristics which may prove out as highly desirable.
There are multiple strings to which our particular bow, may in time, be added to make an attractive addition.
What we need is, just one, that most everyone cannot live without, speaking metaphorically, of course.
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, what are your thoughts?
