Krishna Rangasayee, SiMa AI | RAISE Summit 2026

In this interview from RAISE Summit 2026 in Paris, Krishna Rangasayee, founder and chief executive officer of SiMa.ai, joins theCUBE's John Furrier to discuss how physical AI is moving from early adoption into mainstream production across robotics, automotive and drones. Rangasayee details how SiMa.ai's Gen 2 silicon has entered production alongside a new system-on-module offering a pin-to-pin replacement for the industry's leading GPU SOM, removing the friction of switching platforms. He also unveils Palette Neat, an agentic wrapper around the company's software development kit that lets customers build and migrate applications using plain English, cutting deployment time from months to hours. The conversation explores why heterogeneous compute, rather than a GPU-only approach, is essential as inference and reasoning workloads scale, with SiMa.ai's Arm, DSP and proprietary ML architecture designed to give customers flexibility in power, performance and cost. Rangasayee touches on the company's deepening partnership with Micron on memory and highlights fast-emerging use cases, including GPS-denied drones, anti-drone systems, humanoid robotics and even an agentic autonomous lawnmower that responds to voice commands. He notes that unlike many enterprise AI applications still searching for ROI, physical AI markets are already established, leaving adoption as the primary growth driver. From ruggedized, power-efficient silicon to reasoning-driven software migration, Rangasayee outlines how SiMa.ai is positioning itself to scale physical AI as it moves closer to where people live and work. Find more SiliconANGLE news and analysis https://siliconangle.com/ Follow theCUBE's wall-to-wall event coverage https://siliconangle.com/events/ Learn about the latest theCUBE events https://www.thecube.net/ 00:00 - Navigating the Future: An Overview of AI Infrastructure and Emerging Trends 02:23 - SiMa.ai's Journey: From SuperCloud Evolution to Cutting-Edge AI Advancements 04:57 - Strategic Alliances and AI Innovation: Infrastructure and Emerging Use Cases 07:49 - Revolutionary Agent-Based Software from SiMa.ai 10:59 - Navigating AI: Challenges and Future Directions #theCUBE #RaiseSummit #theCUBEresearch #SiMaAI #PhysicalAI #EdgeAI #Robotics