Fo’c’sle
Reference distillations and the cross-vendor benchmark methodology that powers the platform.
Models
Depth-Anything-Edge
Distilled depth model that holds 0.32 AbsRel on KITTI while running 60 FPS on a Pi 5 + Hailo HAT. The reference release.
ZoeDepth-Mobile
Metric depth in real units. Calibrated for mobile-tier NPUs.
SAM-3-Distilled
Distilled SAM-3 for VLA stacks that need on-device segmentation prompts. 4× lighter than the reference.
DINO-v3-Distilled
Distilled DINO-v3 backbone for downstream perception. The encoder under most of our reference models.
Posts
Cross-chip benchmark report: Q3 2028
Three transformers caught up to YOLO. Hailo-10 dethroned Coral on the low-power tier. Thor justified its watts on VLA. The full numbers, and the surprises.
How Meridian Autonomy compressed chip selection from 14 weeks to 9 days
When the SKU plan calls for four hardware tiers — and your perception stack is six models deep — the chip-selection cycle eats the whole roadmap. Meridian's engineering lead on what changed.
Inside the HIL lab: methodology for cross-vendor robotics benchmarks
What it means to call a number 'comparable' across silicon vendors — the rig, the harness, the protocol, and the ways we keep ourselves honest.
Releasing Depth-Anything-Edge: a 41 MB depth model that runs at 60 FPS on a Pi 5
A distilled monocular depth model with metric-stable outputs, a 0.32 AbsRel on KITTI, and a memory footprint that fits inside the Hailo-8L on a Pi HAT. Weights, recipes, and HIL traces, all open.
Now supporting NVIDIA Jetson Thor and Hailo-10H in HIL Sim
Both platforms are now first-class targets for HIL simulation runs and live in the cross-chip leaderboards. What's new, what's still pending, and how to request runs against your own chip rotation.
The end of single-vendor edge AI
For two decades, the answer to 'which chip should we build on' was 'whichever one our prior product used'. The next product cycle is going to look different, and not because anyone wants it to.
Contributions to the platform
HIL benchmark methodology v0.7
The matched-pair protocol that underwrites every cross-chip number on the catalog.
Reference distillation program
Eight reference models distilled to fit edge silicon — released under Focsle-Research.
Cross-vendor compiler
The neutral compiler underlying the Deploy tab on every model page.
Quarterly benchmark report
Numbers, surprises, and methodology notes — every quarter, public and free.