Cost effective deployment of vision-language models for pet behavior detection on AWS Inferentia2

Tomofun, the Taiwan-headquartered pet-tech startup behind the Furbo Pet Camera, is redefining how pet owners interact with their pets remotely. Furbo combines smart cameras with AI to detect behaviors such as barking, running, or unusual activity, and alerts owners in real time. At the core of this capability are computer vision and vision-language models that interpret pet actions from the video streams. Originally, Furbo’s inference workloads were hosted on GPU-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.