Blaize and Starshine Partner to Deliver Scalable Hybrid AI Infrastructure Across Asia in $120M Agreement
In a landmark move set to transform artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, Blaize Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BZAI, NASDAQ: BZAIW), a leader in programmable, energy-efficient edge AI computing, has announced a strategic collaboration with Starshine Computing Power Technology Limited (“Starshine”). This partnership will deploy Blaize’s hybrid AI platform to deliver scalable, energy-efficient AI solutions across APAC’s fastest-growing economies. The agreement, valued at a minimum of $120 million over an 18-month term, marks a significant step toward advancing real-world AI applications in smart cities, industrial automation, and intelligent public services.
The deployment will begin in fiscal Q3 2025 and continue through 2026, with initial efforts focused on smart city applications. The collaboration also includes plans to accelerate software development to expand into additional industries, ensuring that Blaize and Starshine can address the diverse needs of key markets such as India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and China. These deployments align closely with each country’s AI infrastructure priorities, supporting their economic growth, urban development, and climate resilience initiatives.
Real-Time, Localized AI: A Foundational Shift
As countries across the APAC region invest heavily in AI infrastructure, localized and real-time AI capabilities have become foundational to driving innovation and efficiency. The collaboration between Blaize and Starshine aims to meet this demand by delivering scalable hybrid AI systems that combine flexibility, power efficiency, and multimodal workload support. These systems are designed to process data streams at the edge, enabling real-time decision-making and reducing latency—a critical requirement for applications like smart city surveillance, predictive maintenance, and resource optimization.
“This is the beginning of real-world AI infrastructure at scale,” said Dinakar Munagala, co-founder and CEO of Blaize. “Asia represents a $112 billion opportunity for next-generation intelligent systems, and inference is leading the charge. Our hybrid AI platform is designed to deliver the efficiency, flexibility, power, and support for multimodal workloads to meet this surge, especially at the edge. Together with Starshine, we’re providing sovereign-grade infrastructure where programmable, energy-efficient inference becomes the backbone of smart cities, industrial environments, and public services.”
Cutting-Edge AI Solutions for High-Growth Sectors
At the heart of this collaboration is Blaize’s GSP®-based (Graph Streaming Processor) AI platform, which anchors next-generation computing clusters for smart cities, industries, and agriculture. By integrating Blaize’s GSP-based inference accelerators with GPU-based infrastructure, the rollout will deliver a new class of hybrid AI computing clusters. These clusters are designed to cut energy use, lower total cost of ownership, and enable real-time, localized decision-making at the edge.
The hybrid AI platform will target high-growth sectors, including:
- Smart City Surveillance:
High-efficiency, multi-node AI video analytics will be deployed across urban environments to enhance public safety, traffic management, and environmental monitoring. These systems will process vast amounts of data in real time, enabling smarter, more responsive urban ecosystems. - Retail & Security:
Edge AI solutions will provide low-latency insights for real-time retail operations, improving customer experiences, optimizing inventory management, and enhancing security measures. - Smart Industry:
Automation and predictive maintenance solutions will revolutionize manufacturing, logistics, and energy sectors. By leveraging AI to monitor equipment performance and predict failures, businesses can reduce downtime and improve operational efficiency. - AgTech & Smart Irrigation:
Scalable AI solutions will optimize resource usage in agriculture, addressing challenges like water scarcity and crop yield maximization. These applications are particularly relevant in APAC, where agriculture remains a cornerstone of many economies.
A Partnership Built on Innovation and Efficiency
The collaboration underscores the growing importance of hybrid AI infrastructure as a cornerstone of technological advancement. “Hybrid AI is no longer an experiment; it’s infrastructure,” said Teng Ma, Chairman of Starshine. “Blaize delivers exactly what our customers demand: flexibility, power efficiency, multimodal support, and scalability. This partnership gives us the technology and capability to meet surging demand across Asia for real-time, localized intelligence.”
By combining Blaize’s cutting-edge hardware and software with Starshine’s deep expertise in AI infrastructure solutions, the partnership is poised to deliver transformative outcomes for businesses and governments across the region. The ability to process multimodal data streams—such as video, audio, and sensor data—while maintaining energy efficiency makes Blaize’s platform uniquely suited to address the complex challenges of modern AI applications.
Driving Economic Growth and Sustainability
The deployment of Blaize’s hybrid AI platform across APAC aligns with broader regional goals of fostering economic growth, managing urban expansion, and addressing climate resilience. For example, smart city applications can help governments optimize resource allocation, reduce energy consumption, and improve quality of life for citizens. Similarly, AI-driven advancements in agriculture and industry can enhance productivity while minimizing environmental impact.
Moreover, the focus on energy-efficient edge AI computing reflects a commitment to sustainability. As AI adoption grows, so does its energy footprint. Blaize’s GSP-based platform addresses this challenge by significantly reducing power consumption compared to traditional GPU-centric systems, making it an ideal choice for large-scale deployments in energy-conscious markets.
A New Era of AI Infrastructure
This partnership between Blaize and Starshine represents a pivotal moment in the evolution of AI infrastructure in Asia. By delivering scalable, energy-efficient solutions tailored to the unique needs of the region, the collaboration is setting a new standard for how AI can be deployed at scale. From powering smart cities to transforming industries and agriculture, the impact of this initiative will be felt across multiple sectors.
As the APAC region continues to lead global innovation in AI, partnerships like this one will play a crucial role in shaping the future of technology. By combining Blaize’s groundbreaking AI platform with Starshine’s market expertise, the two companies are not only meeting today’s demands but also laying the foundation for tomorrow’s innovations.
About Blaize
Blaize provides a full-stack programmable processor architecture suite and low-code/no-code software platform that enables AI processing solutions for high-performance computing at the network’s edge and in the data center. Blaize solutions deliver real-time insights and decision-making capabilities at low power consumption, high efficiency, minimal size and low cost. Headquartered in El Dorado Hills (CA), Blaize has more than 200 employees worldwide with teams in San Jose (CA) and Cary (NC), and subsidiaries in Hyderabad (India), Leeds and Kings Langley (UK), and Abu Dhabi (UAE). To learn more, visit www.blaize.com or follow us on LinkedIn at @blaizeinc.
About Starshine Computing Power Technology Limited
Starshine Computing Power Technology is a provider of intelligent computing infrastructure solutions, focused on accelerating the digital transformation of society through innovation and large-scale deployment. The company integrates hardware, software, and scenario-based systems to deliver customized computing clusters for smart cities, industrial automation, and cloud-edge applications. With deep technical expertise and vertically integrated capabilities—including compute power production, scheduling platforms, cloud-based leasing, and financial-grade localization services—Starshine supports the construction of high-performance, low-latency AI infrastructure across Asia’s fast-growing markets.
