San Sebastián (Spain) / Eindhoven (Netherlands) March. 17th 2025 – Multiverse Computing, a leading AI model provider, and Axelera AI, a provider of high-performance AI acceleration solutions for the edge, today announced a technology collaboration to compress and optimize next-generation artificial intelligence models for deployment on Axelera’s Metis™ and forthcoming Europa™ platforms.
Multiverse Computing’s compressed AI models will be integrated directly into Axelera’s platforms, enabling AI workloads that would traditionally require datacenter-class infrastructure to run on compact, energy-efficient devices at the edge. The parties will also launch a commercialization program for the resulting solution.
“Our mission is to make state-of-the-art AI radically more efficient and accessible,” said Enrique Lizaso, Co-founder & CEO of Multiverse Computing. “By combining Multiverse’s advanced compressed AI models with Axelera’s high-performance edge platforms, we can bring powerful reasoning capabilities to devices where latency, privacy and energy consumption are critical.”
“Axelera AI is committed to delivering the most powerful and efficient AI inference solutions to the world,” said Fabrizio Del Maffeo, co-founder & CEO of Axelera AI. “Enabling Multiverse Computing’s compressed AI models to run on our Metis and future Europa platforms will unlock new classes of applications for our customers, from industrial and retail to mobility, defense, smart cities and more.”
Advancing European technological sovereignty
This collaboration is aligned with broader European strategies to strengthen technological sovereignty in both semiconductors and artificial intelligence. By co-developing compressed AI models and hardware acceleration technologies in Europe, Multiverse Computing and Axelera AI aim to reduce dependence on non-European infrastructure while empowering regional industry and public institutions with cutting-edge, locally designed AI capabilities.
“Europe’s competitiveness in the next decade will depend on our ability to combine world-class chips with trustworthy, efficient AI,” said Ekaterina Zaharieva, Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation. “Collaborations like the one between Multiverse Computing and Axelera AI, both supported significantly by the European Innovation Council and its Fund, show how European deep-tech companies, when connected to each other, work together to deliver sovereign strategic digital technologies that are developed and scaled in Europe while serving global markets.”
As part of this goal, the collaboration will enable the development of ultra-efficient inference and fine-tuning engines, allowing organizations to:
- Run complex AI models on low-power edge devices with reduced energy consumption
- Fine-tune models locally to preserve data privacy and comply with regulatory requirements
- Scale AI deployments more cost-effectively across large fleets of devices
Following integration of Multiverse Computing’s compressed AI models into Axelera AI’s hardware platforms, the companies will launch a dedicated commercialization phase for the resulting product.
About Multiverse Computing
Multiverse Computing is the leading compressed AI model provider. The company’s deep expertise in quantum software and AI led to the development of CompactifAI, a revolutionary AI model compressor. CompactifAI compresses LLMs by up to 95% with only 2-3% precision loss. The company now offers compressed AI models that reduce computing requirements and unleash new use cases for AI across industries.
Multiverse Computing is headquartered in Donostia, Spain, with offices across Europe, the U.S., and Canada. For more information, visit multiversecomputing.com
About Axelera AI
Axelera AI is the leading provider of purpose-built AI hardware acceleration technology for AI inference, including computer vision and generative AI applications. Its first-generation product is the game-changing Metis™ AI platform – a holistic hardware and software solution for Edge AI inference which delivers the world’s highest performance and power-efficiency at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions. The product line has expanded to cover use cases from the “far edge” to the data center with the introductions of both Europa platform and and Titania™ chiplet.
Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Axelera AI has experts around the globe in countries including Belgium, Switzerland, Romania, France, UK, Taiwan and the United States.