Ambarella has announced the launch of its Ambarella Developer Zone (DevZone), designed to help Ambarella’s growing ecosystem of partners learn, build and deploy edge AI applications on a variety of edge systems with greater speed and clarity. It provides a collection of optimized models, along with low-code and no-code agentic blueprints, to enable the rapid development of edge AI applications on Ambarella’s portfolio of purpose-built edge AI systems-on-chip (SoCs) with Cooper development software.
As AI workloads increasingly move toward hybrid edge/cloud architectures, partners need faster, more scalable ways to develop products and services with Ambarella’s full-stack edge AI platform. The DevZone consolidates essential tools, documentation, models and community resources into a single destination, enabling system integrators, distributors, module builders, independent software vendors (ISVs) and other global ecosystem partners to engage, prototype and accelerate edge AI solutions for a wide range of vertical industry segments.
“The edge AI markets we serve are evolving rapidly and our partner ecosystem needs a way to stay ahead of the curve,” said Muneyb Minhazuddin, customer growth officer at Ambarella. “The Ambarella Developer Zone reduces friction, while giving partners deeper access. It is a foundational part of opening our ecosystem and supporting broader go-to-market collaboration.”
The DevZone consolidates Ambarella’s development resources in one platform. It includes the Cooper Model Garden, a repository of validated and optimized models ready for testing and validation. The platform also offers a learning and onboarding library with white papers, blogs, tutorials and sample applications, as well as agentic blueprints and low-/no-code templates that enable rapid design of multi-agent systems through next-generation agentic workflows.
Two ISVs have already leveraged the Ambarella Developer Zone to build and deploy their edge AI models to the N1-655 SoC. “Running the Cogniac platform on the Ambarella Developer Zone gives our teams a powerful way to push the boundaries of what’s possible with edge AI,” said Quinn Curtis, CEO of Cogniac. “Ambarella’s performance‑efficient architecture aligns perfectly with our mission to deliver scalable, real‑time intelligence, and the Developer Zone makes it faster and easier for innovators to build, test and deploy production‑ready solutions.”
“Bringing our Viana vision analytics solution into the Ambarella Developer Zone opens the door to an entirely new level of performance for edge-based vision AI. Ambarella’s AI-focused SoCs give us a powerful foundation to deliver real-time insights with extremely low latency and far less power consumption. Together, we’re making it easier for customers to run advanced AI models at scale, so they can better understand what’s happening in their physical spaces and optimize operations as it happens,” added Thor Turrecha, EVP of global SaaS, meldCX.
Addressing AI development challenges
Developers across both physical AI and edge infrastructure applications – such as robotics, industrial automation, smart cameras, ADAS, on-premise AI boxes and many other sectors – are navigating rising complexity; from larger multimodal models to fragmented toolchains. At the same time, they are facing growing demands for fast and secure inference in latency-sensitive environments.
The DevZone centralizes tools, examples, models and learning resources in a single developer-friendly platform. It aims to strengthen ISV engagement by providing a clear path for integration and co-launching solutions, and helps partners understand how Ambarella’s hardware and software stack fits into hybrid edge/cloud architectures. The platform also supports future workloads, including multimodal inference and hybrid AI pipelines. The Ambarella Developer Zone will be demonstrated during CES in Las Vegas.
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