- Armada has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to deliver smaller, industry-specific AI models for operational challenges. - The partnership aims to enable scalable deployments of AI applications at the edge. - Armada Galleons will serve as a foundation for efficient inference compute, while the Armada Edge Platform ensures seamless model deployment in constrained environments. - OpenAI's open-weight model, gpt-oss-120b, has been tested and made available on Armada's Galleons. - The collaboration allows customers to build and deploy latency-sensitive AI applications securely and in compliance with data sovereignty. - Customers will access specialized models that provide real-time insights across various industries including oil and gas, mining, public safety, and defense. - Ashley Kramer from OpenAI stated that the collaboration brings frontier AI to the edge for immediate data action. - The companies will also explore energy-efficient AI by optimizing model architectures for better power consumption in remote operations. - Advanced explainability tools will be developed to enhance trust and accountability in AI systems. - Dan Wright, CEO of Armada, emphasized the mission to simplify data management and empower organizations at the edge. - Both companies are committed to accelerating the adoption of responsible AI solutions to transform data utilization and drive operational efficiency. - Armada is focused on delivering edge infrastructure capabilities across remote and rugged industrial environments.

Armada and OpenAI to Advance Edge AI for Industry

News provided by Armada

Oct 21, 2025, 09:00 ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Armada, a leader in edge computing, today announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI. The collaboration will focus on delivering smaller, industry-specific AI models designed to address operational challenges across critical sectors, enabling scalable, real-world deployment of AI applications at the edge.

As part of the agreement, Armada Galleons, ruggedized modular data centers, will serve as a key foundation for efficient inference compute, and Armada Edge Platform (AEP) will ensure seamless deployment of models in diverse and bandwidth-constrained environments. Armada has also tested and made available OpenAI's recently released open-weight model, gpt-oss-120b, on its Galleons. This collaboration empowers customers to build and deploy latency-sensitive AI/ML applications at the edge in a secure and scalable fashion, unlocking new possibilities across industries. This also enables customers to build and deploy applications with the models securely and in full compliance with data sovereignty requirements worldwide.

By combining Armada's flexible infrastructure with OpenAI's frontier models, customers will gain access to highly specialized models that deliver real-time insights in industries such as oil & gas, mining, public safety, and defense.

"With Armada, we're bringing the power of frontier AI directly to the edge—making it possible for organizations to act on data instantly, wherever it's generated," said Ashley Kramer, head of revenue at OpenAI. "This is another step toward unlocking AI's full potential to help industries move faster, build trust, and scale with confidence."

Beyond industry-specific modeling and edge deployment, both companies will explore additional areas of collaboration aligned with OpenAI's mission and Armada's capabilities:Energy-Efficient AI: Optimizing model architectures and inference pipelines to make power consumption more efficient, a critical factor for remote and environmentally sensitive operations.
Advanced Explainability Tools: Building transparent AI systems that enhance trust and accountability, empowering users and decision-makers to better understand and act on model outputs.

"Armada's mission is to bridge the digital divide and empower organizations by simplifying data management, compute, and AI at the edge," said Dan Wright, Chief Executive Officer at Armada. "OpenAI enables us to deliver scalable, domain-focused models on high-performance infrastructure, putting actionable insights directly into the hands of customers wherever they operate."

Both companies' share a commitment to accelerating the adoption of responsible and industry-ready AI solutions. By uniting frontier AI models with robust edge infrastructure, Armada and OpenAI aim to transform how organizations harness data at the source, driving operational efficiency and fueling next-generation innovation.

About Armada
Armada is a full-stack edge infrastructure company delivering compute, storage, connectivity, and AI/ML capabilities to the most remote and rugged industrial environments on Earth. From energy to defense, Armada enables organizations to operate at the edge—without compromise.

Media contact: press@armada.ai

SOURCE Armada