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# Big brains on little machines with Supermodel Labs


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 12:50–12:55 (5 min)
- **Room:** Outdoor Stage
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

Supermodel Labs began by exploring how ordinary computers could become useful AI infrastructure. That exploration became Aquaduck: a hybrid AI platform that turns existing business hardware into private inference infrastructure with selective cloud routing and its own powerful on-device AI agent.

We’ll cover what we learned about distributed inference and hybrid AI inference routing; what we’ve built and achieved so far; and how businesses can use hybrid AI to gain greater control over their data, infrastructure, and AI costs.

## Speakers

### [Kirah Sapong](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@kirah-sapong)

Co-founder & CTO of Aquaduck AI
### [Daniel Dafoe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@daniel-dafoe)

Co-founder and CEO at Supermodel Labs


## Related talks at this congress

- [Edge AI: Running Agentic Intelligence Where Internet Can't Reach](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1805-edge-ai-running) — Nitin Eusebius
- [The State of Local AI in 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1749-the-state-of-local) — Kirah Sapong
- [Building Stuff with GenAI - The Open Minded Workshop beyond OpenAI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1719-building-stuff-with) — Andreas Erben
- [You Can’t Re-Run Sunlight: Designing ML Data Architectures for Physical AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1677-you-can-t-re-run) — An Phan

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## Links

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