Samsara uses a hybrid AI stack including frontier and open-weights models
Sanjit Biswas · The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas · Jul 29, 2026 · at 36:15
Samsara co-founder and CEO Sanjit Biswas explains Samsara's multi-tier model selection and distillation strategy for physical AI applications.
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“We use multiple models from different labs simultaneously. The open source models are pretty compelling. I think it's having its moment now, but we've been seeing and this is really, I think from the academic communities, open source and really open weights models really give you a lot of operational freedom. So we can do things like distill them for example, to shrink them down to fit on a device. So we use models like that, and then there's others that we train from scratch. Those might be smaller models, call it tens of millions of parameters, but very specific to something we need to do in the field.”
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