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
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Infrastructure12 min read
Vessel GPU Racks: Power, Cooling, Security
The unglamorous realities of deploying GPU compute on a vessel. Power budgets, thermal management, vibration isolation, and physical access control.
James Calder·May 17, 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
Infrastructure18 min read
On-Vessel GPU Selection Guide
Blackwell B200, H200, H100, L40S, and A100 compared for vessel deployments. When each is the right call and the power realities.
James Calder·April 11, 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
Infrastructure15 min read
Unified Memory for Vessel AI
AMD Strix Halo and NVIDIA DGX Spark bring 128 GB of unified memory to a shelf-sized box for under $4,000. When to buy one.
James Calder·April 10, 2026
Infrastructure14 min read
1M Context: The GPU Math (2/3)
VRAM and KV cache math for models from 7B to 405B at 1M tokens. Per-user scaling for crew and guests. The numbers are ugly.
James Calder·April 7, 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
Resilience6 min read
Crew Management Without the Cloud
On-vessel AI handles crew scheduling, certifications, and compliance for 2,000+ crew without relying on a satellite link.
James Calder·March 25, 2026
Resilience5 min read
Why Cloud AI Fails at Sea
Your satellite link cannot support cloud-based AI on a vessel. Here is why, and what actually works 200 miles from shore.
James Calder·March 4, 2026