Most of the AI chatter this year is about giant models in data centers. Yet some of the most practical progress is happening at the opposite end: tiny chips in rings, earbuds and sensors that must run a neural network for days on a sliver of battery. On November 9, 2026, Ambiq Micro announced heliaAOT 1.0, a compiler built for exactly that job. According to Ambiq's press release, it cuts inference latency by up to 76% and energy per inference by up to 72% against LiteRT Micro, a common embe...