Intel details major AI push: Nervana platform, Google alliance and more

Intel details major AI push: Nervana platform, Google alliance and more

Intel wants to see artificial intelligence technology grow, and it has announced a range of new efforts that will help achieve that growth. Says the company, it is ‘assembling the broadest set of technology options’ for boosting artificial intelligence abilities in all sorts of industries, including things like the auto industry (for self-driving cars), factories, and even fraud detection in the financial industry. Chief among the company’s recent AI announcement is the introduction of the Intel Nervana platform, something the company says it has built to serve as the foundation for ‘highly optimized AI solutions.’ In the first half of next year, Intel will test codenamed Lake Crest “first silicon” and then make it available to certain key customers later on in 2017. Lake Crest has been optimized for neural…


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