Edge AI

Local model deployment, agentic workflows, and the software that turns a rack of GPUs into something guests and crew actually use.

Edge AI11 min read

Voice AI for Multilingual Yacht Crews

Build, buy, or self-host voice assistants for multilingual yacht crews. Real latency numbers for Whisper, Piper, and Deepgram on vessel hardware.

Ethan Marsh·May 24, 2026

Edge AI5 min read

MSC's AI Concierge: One Missing Answer

MSC's AI concierge processed a million guest messages at 93% satisfaction. Nobody asked where those conversations live or what happens offline.

Marcus Hale·May 18, 2026

Edge AI4 min read

Why MSC's Robot Dogs Need Local AI

MSC Cruises is putting AI robot dogs and digital avatars on its ships. Every one of those systems proves why compute has to live on the vessel.

James Calder·May 8, 2026

Edge AI11 min read

Agentic Workflows for Yacht Concierge

How to architect a multi-tool AI concierge that handles guest requests on a charter yacht, with or without a satellite link.

Ethan Marsh·May 3, 2026

Edge AI6 min read

Kimi K2.6: 1T Parameters, 8 H200s Required

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 ships natively in INT4 at 1T parameters. Open weights, world-class agent benchmarks, and a hardware bill that starts at 8 H200s.

Ethan Marsh·April 21, 2026

Edge AI12 min read

Deploying a 70B LLM Offline at Sea

Hardware, quantization, and serving stack for running Llama 3.1 70B on a vessel with no cloud fallback. Real specs and real benchmarks.

Ethan Marsh·April 19, 2026

Edge AI4 min read

First Yacht OEM Ships Local-First AI

Next Yacht Group is shipping on-vessel AI as a standard feature across its entire range. Here is why that changes the conversation for every yacht owner.

James Calder·April 15, 2026

Edge AI17 min read

KV Cache Quantization at Sea (3/3)

Google's TurboQuant compresses the KV cache to 3 bits with no accuracy loss. Here is what that means for a vessel GPU rack.

Ethan Marsh·April 10, 2026

Edge AI10 min read

Context vs. RAG on Vessels (1/3)

Vercel ran the eval: a compressed doc file beat on-demand retrieval 100% to 53%. What that means for AI deployments on vessels.

Ethan Marsh·April 4, 2026

Edge AI6 min read

AI Concierge That Works Mid-Ocean

Cloud chatbots fail when the ship leaves port. Here is what an on-vessel AI concierge looks like, and why guests will not notice.

James Calder·April 1, 2026

Edge AI6 min read

Why Vessel Safety CV Has to Run Locally

Man overboard detection and deck safety monitoring are latency-sensitive problems. Here is why shore-side processing cannot meet the operational bar.

James Calder·March 11, 2026