Ottawa company running its own NVIDIA GPU edge nodes in colocation facilities, starting in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, and selling low-latency speech, language and text-to-speech inference through an OpenAI-compatible API.
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Ottawa company running its own NVIDIA GPU edge nodes in colocation facilities, starting in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, and selling low-latency speech, language and text-to-speech inference through an OpenAI-compatible API.
Federally incorporated under the CBCA on February 7, 2025, with an active status and Rade Kovacevic recorded as the individual with significant control. ised-isde.canada.ca
Stated in April 2026 that it runs inference across three production colocations, having started from a single edge node in Vancouver. polargrid.ai
Its docs list 16 regions: four in Canada (Toronto yto-01, Montreal yul-01 and yul-02, Vancouver yvr-02) and twelve in the US. A listed region is not proof of an owned node. polargrid.mintlify.app
Featured by BetaKit in January 2026 as an Ottawa-based company working on AI inference latency, with founder and CEO Rade Kovacevic. betakit.com
States that it runs open models on GPU infrastructure it owns at the edge — a claim the company makes about itself on its own site. polargrid.ai
Its SMS program page names Digital Treehouse, an AI consulting company, as a business customer whose inbound phone line is answered by a PolarGrid voice assistant. polargrid.ai
Products PolarGrid publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
AI inference platform
Runs open-weight speech-to-text, LLM and text-to-speech models (e.g. Qwen 3.5, Whisper Large V3 Turbo, Kokoro) on its own edge GPU nodes behind an OpenAI-compatible API, with pay-per-token or per-minute pricing and $500 starter credits.
Learn moreModel hosting
Hosts a customer's fine-tuned or proprietary weights on PolarGrid edge nodes, kept warm 24/7 on reserved GPU capacity and exposed through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Learn moreGovernment support actually received. Unpublished amounts are left out.
NRC IRAP — Prototype Edge Inference Service — contribution
NRC IRAP — Feasibility of low-latency inference edge configuration on satellite data — grant
Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.
Rade Kovacevic
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Terms the company uses about its own work.
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