- General
- September 5, 2018
- 7 minutes read
Baidu and Intel inks collaboration on Artificial Intelligence solutions for enterprises
Rao (right) speaks with James Jacobs, CEO of Ziva Dynamics, An Intel AI partner at its AI DevCon conference which…
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| Rao (right) speaks with James Jacobs, CEO of Ziva Dynamics, An Intel AI partner at its AI DevCon conference which held this May
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Chinese internet giant Baidu has now inked a new partnership on the AI field which will see both develops AI solutions and utilities for industries ranging from financial services and shipping to video content detection.
Baidu Cloud is uniquely leveraging Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors and its Math Kernel Library-Deep Neural Network for a new financial services solution for leading Chinese banks. It’s also taking advantage with Intel’s OpenVINO toolkit for new AI edge distribution and video solutions along with the company’s Optane and Intel QLC NAND SSD technologies for enhanced object storage.
Baidu is delivering advanced private financial clouds for several baking customers including China Union Pay*, AI Bank and the Agricultural Bank of China and will run the private clouds on Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the Intel MKL-DNN library to deploy the required performance and security for the financial services giants.
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The Chinese firm is also deploying a high-end AI video analysis system equipped with a camera that detects and instantly reports any unusual incidents involving trucks which Baidu assists companies in monitoring real-time and reporting back for any outstanding events.
In addition to this, It’s bolstering its video processing services to better support iQiyi, The video streaming service operated by the company which went public earlier this year raising $2.25 Billion in what counts as one the largest IPOs this year.
With Intel and Baidu stepping out to collaborate on AI solutions for enterprises, This marks another leap in the Santa Clara based chip manufacturer’s AI efforts to push boundaries in AI through the production of performance-leading products and a take on broad ecosystem collaboration.
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| Rao opens the Intel AI DevCon event on the 23rd of May 2018, in San Francisco. Intel |
“Intel is collaborating with Baidu Cloud to deliver end-to-end AI solutions. Adopting a new chip or optimizing a single framework is not enough to meet the demands of new AI workloads.” said Intel VP Data Center Group and GM, Cloud Service Provider Platform Group Raejeanne Skillern.
“What’s required is systems-level integration with software optimization, and Intel is enabling this through our expertise and extensive portfolio of AI technologies – all in the name of helping our customers achieve their AI goals.”
Building on its collaboration with Baidu, Intel sets its sights on accelerating AI breakthroughs and implementations, Leveraging the technology to deliver solutions and eventually turn deep concepts to reality.
