Travis DeWolf

Applied Brain Research, Inc. is a Canadian AI design company that creates low-power embedded AI systems for various devices such as smartphones, drones, robots, cars, cameras, clothing, wearables, and sensors. The private company is based in Waterloo, Canada and was founded by Peter Suma, Xuan Choo, Terry Stewart, Travis DeWolf, Daniel Rasmussen, Trevor Bekolay, Chris Eliasmith. The company discovered an AI time-series processing algorithm called the Legendre Memory Unit (LMU) which outperforms LSTMs and transformers on time-series applications by a factor of 10x. ABR's AI chips and software are inspired by the efficiency of brain circuits and backed by neuroscientists and AI engineers. ABR has used the LMU to create an ultra-efficient time series processor chip which will be available in 2023. ABR is a leading company in edge artificial intelligence (AI) with proprietary hardware and software for AI-enabled products. Kevin Conley has been the CEO of the company since 2023.