Bring the model to the event, not the event to the cloud

Latency is not a rounding error when the decision has to happen on a factory floor, a vehicle, or a trading desk. Edge inference exists because the round trip is the product.

Processing at the source of data also changes the privacy story. Less data in motion means fewer places it can leak.

The network edge is now a design surface

Shifting neural processing to the edge eliminates waiting. It also forces clearer contracts: what is computed locally, what is synced, and what never leaves the device.