Blaize announces $71m Series D financing Blaize, the AI computing innovator looking to revolutionise edge and automotive computing solutions, has closed a $71m Series D round of funding. According to JP Scandalios, senior vice president and portfolio manager, Franklin Templeton, a new investor, "âBlaize has demonstrated the capability to enable value creation for organisations tapping the power of AI for edge computing. Automotive, and numerous edge AI markets, such as retail and metro, hold tremendous potential for Blaize to expand on their early market position as the adoption of AI at the edge accelerates, creating a new wave of industrial systems.â