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Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Intel and Baidu Collaborate for China AI

Also mention of Duer OS Assistant, whose use is being extended. Breadth of application areas is interesting.

Baidu and Intel team up to deliver new AI services in China   By Mike Wheatley in SiliconAngle.

Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. is collaborating with Intel Corp. on a number of artificial intelligence services that leverage the chipmaker’s hardware for superior performance.

Outlined at the Baidu 2018 ABC Summit in Shanghai Tuesday, the new applications are being offered by Baidu Cloud and cover financial services, shipping, video content detection and data storage.

First, Baidu Cloud is using specialized central processing units and a neural network from Intel to offer a “financial cloud” service for Chinese banks. The cloud service employs Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors and its MKL-DNN library to ensure it meets the level of performance that those institutions demand, the companies said.  .... " 

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