Intel Innovation 2023 Highlights

Tuesday morning (Sept. 19, 2023), Intel kicked off its third annual developer event, Intel Innovation 2023, virtually and in San Jose, California. During the Day 1 keynote, “Developing the Future of the Siliconomy,” Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, and a variety of customers, unveiled an array of technologies and applications that bring artificial intelligence everywhere and make it more accessible across all workloads.

Deci delivers breakthrough inference performance on Intel’s 4th Gen Sapphire Rapids CPU

Deci, the deep learning company building the next generation of AI, announced a breakthrough performance on Intel’s newly released 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, code-named Sapphire Rapids. By optimizing the AI models which run on Intel’s new hardware, Deci enables AI developers to achieve GPU-like inference performance on CPUs in production for both Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.

Podcast Highlights: “Intel on AI”: Learning with AI

With over 15 years of experience in machine learning, neural networks, and computer vision, Microsoft’s Milena Marinova knows a thing or two about using AI for professional growth. In this podcast episode of “Intel on AI,” Milena shares lessons she’s learned during her career, including the challenges of developing AI products and the importance of data policy by design.

Research Highlights: Interactive continual learning for robots: a neuromorphicapproach

In this regular column we take a look at highlights for breaking research topics of the day in the areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. For data scientists, it’s important to keep connected with the research arm of the field in order to understand where the technology is headed. Enjoy!

Intel’s Habana Labs Launches Second-Generation AI Processors for Training and Inferencing

Intel announced that Habana Labs, its data center team focused on AI deep learning processor technologies, launched its second-generation deep learning processors for training and inference: Habana® Gaudi®2 and Habana® Greco™. These new processors address an industry gap by providing customers with high-performance, high-efficiency deep learning compute choices for both training workloads and inference deployments in the data center while lowering the AI barrier to entry for companies of all sizes.

At John Deere, ‘Hard Iron Meets Artificial Intelligence’

Intel and John Deere developed an integrated, end-to-end system of hardware and software that can generate insights in real-time, at levels beyond human capability. When using a neural network-based inference engine, the solution logs defects in real-time and automatically stops the welding process.

Deci and Intel Collaborate to Optimize Deep Learning Inference on Intel’s CPUs

Deci, the deep learning company building the next generation of AI, announced a broad strategic business and technology collaboration with Intel Corporation to optimize deep learning inference on Intel Architecture (IA) CPUs. As one of the first companies to participate in Intel Ignite startup accelerator, Deci will now work with Intel to deploy innovative AI technologies to mutual customers.

Intel Announces AI and Analytics Platform with New Processor, Memory, Storage and FPGA Solutions

Intel today introduced its 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and additions to its hardware and software AI portfolio, enabling customers to accelerate the development and use of AI and analytics workloads running in data center, network and intelligent-edge environments. As the industry’s first mainstream server processor with built-in bfloat16 support, Intel’s new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable processors makes artificial intelligence (AI) inference and training more widely deployable on general-purpose CPUs for applications that include image classification, recommendation engines, speech recognition and language modeling.

Two Day Launch Event: Enabling Real Artificial Intelligence with Dell Technologies and PowerEdge

Please join us for two free CrowdChat events on June 2 & 3 to learn how Dell Technologies and PowerEdge enable more organizations to leverage AI with VMware & Intel. Dell Technologies is already helping their customers explore and reap the benefits of this exciting new frontier with scalable, flexible solutions designed to help you solve complex problems faster than ever.

Intel Works with University of Pennsylvania in Using Privacy-Preserving AI to Identify Brain Tumors

Intel Labs and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) are co-developing technology to enable a federation of 29 international healthcare and research institutions led by Penn Medicine to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that identify brain tumors using a privacy-preserving technique called federated learning.