Nexa SDK – Build powerful and efficient AI apps on edge devices
Hey HN! Alex and Zack here from Nexa AI. We're excited to share something we've been working on. Our journey began with the Octopus series --- action models for mobile AI agents (https://huggingface.co/NexaAIDev/Octopus-v2). We focused on making sub-billion parameter models excel at function calling, making high accurate and fast function-calling possible on mobile and edge devices. But as we delved into developing full-fledged on-device applications, we hit a roadblock. We realized that optimizing for function calling (tool-use) alone wasn't enough. Building powerful…
Nexa SDK – Build powerful and efficient AI apps on edge devices launched on September 8, 2024 with 27 votes, #699 of 5,281 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Nexa SDK is a toolkit for building AI applications on mobile and edge devices. It combines language models, speech processing, image generation, and embedding models to enable developers to create full-featured on-device AI apps. The SDK builds on Nexa AI's work with small parameter models optimized for function calling on resource-constrained devices, providing the diverse tools needed beyond basic tool-use capabilities.
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Run frontier LLMs and VLMs locally on Qualcomm devices across NPU, GPU, and CPU with a few lines of code - qualcomm/GenieX
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN! Alex and Zack here from Nexa AI. We're excited to share something we've been working on. Our journey began with the Octopus series --- action models for mobile AI agents (https://huggingface.co/NexaAIDev/Octopus-v2). We focused on making sub-billion parameter models excel at function…
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