Intel Conversations in the Cloud is a recurring podcast series focused on delivering, deploying, and managing cloud computing, technology and services in the data center and enterprise. Hosted by Intel employee Allyson Klein, Conversations in the Cloud features members of the Intel Cloud Builders pr…
The SafeHouse Initiative was organized to provide education and awareness to businesses who are inundated with technical concepts, jargon and terms around the concepts of Business Continuity and Cyber Security. We understand that customers want to focus on their business rather than becoming Cyber Security or Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity technology experts. Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
The SafeHouse Initiative was organized to provide education and awareness to businesses who are inundated with technical concepts, jargon and terms around the concepts of Business Continuity and Cyber Security. We understand that customers want to focus on their business rather than becoming Cyber Security or Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity technology experts. Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
The SafeHouse Initiative was organized to provide education and awareness to businesses who are inundated with technical concepts, jargon and terms around the concepts of Business Continuity and Cyber Security. We understand that customers want to focus on their business rather than becoming Cyber Security or Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity technology experts. Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Learn why our customers are moving to immersion cooling, and how it and sustainability are changing data centers in this conversation with Intel Fellows Mohan Kumar, Nishi Ahuja and Senior PE Sandeep Ahuja and host Jake Smith. For more information, visit: Data Center Sustainability- Intel and Submer Partner on Immersion Cooling | Intel Business - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBVO_YQBYjc and Intel® Data Center Manager | Sustainability: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/sustainability.html?wapkw=sustainability Follow Jake on Twitter at: twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Deepak MK, Vice President of Data Science at ExamRoom.AI sits in with Jake to discuss the company's primary mission: to provide a highly secure, unified assessment system and fair environment to the candidates who take online remote proctored exams. ExamRoom.AI's research and advancements in AI technology have unleashed leap-forward technological accomplishments, leading to efforts toward making robust online testing a reality. Universities and organizations alike face difficulties in ensuring integrity and security in testing that ExamRoom.AI can address. Using 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable Processors and OpenVINO helped ExamRoom.AI reduce the occurrence of memory issues and build better machine learning models through its scalability and latency reduction, greatly reducing model training time. Intel's Ice Lake processor speeds up and enhances their systems, helping avoid dreaded Out Of Memory (OOM) errors. Check out their website for more information at ExamRoom.AI
On today's episode of Conversations in the Cloud Alex Liu, Chief Technology Officer of BasicAI stops by to talk about the company's efforts at evolving the training data platform. Xtreme1 is the world's first open-source platform for multisensory training data and can rapidly accelerate the processing and management of training data. AI engineers spend a preponderance of their time preparing the training data. Through advanced AI-powered annotation tools, Xtreme1 improves modeling. Capable of handling various time-sensitive online/offline tasks, distributed data analysis computation, model training, evaluation, and inference, Xtreme1 is fully compatible with CPU-only runtime environments. In particular, the model inference has been optimized for Intel Xeon CPU to provide higher throughput. Inference throughput on Intel Xeon 8380 is vastly improved with the help of Intel extension for PyTorch and OpenVINO toolkit. For more information go to www.basic.ai and www.xtreme1.io
Dr. Yichuan Zhang, CEO of Boltzbit, joins host Jake Smith to discuss what is generative AI, why it matters to developers, and how the Boltzbit Generative AutoML platform helps tackle enterprise AI challenges. Dr. Yichuan started by sharing his journey of transitioning from academia to industry and entrepreneurship while developing a strong passion for solving complex challenges with generative AI. Dr. Yichuan explained why the next phase of AI is generative in terms of bigger and more dynamic output capacity, which makes AI development easier and faster. Dr. Yichuan praised the partnership with Intel where software optimization on CPU makes AI accessible on a broader range of devices, especially in public cloud infrastructure. While recognizing AI still has a long way to go, Dr. Yichuan sees generative AI to play an important role in unleashing AI capabilities to catch up with human intelligence at some levels. For more information, visit: https://boltzbit.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Davit Buniatyan, Activeloop CEO, joins host Jake Smith on the latest episode of Conversations in the Cloud to discuss optimizing data lakes for creating deep learning-based products. Deep Lake allows storing complex data in AI-native format and streaming it over the network to Tensor Query Language, in-browser visualization engine, and deep learning frameworks without sacrificing GPU utilization. A member of the Intel Disruptor program, Activeloop partners with Intel to deliver Deep Lake on Intel® Xeon Scalable Processors and make Deep Lake more performant. Learn more about Deep Lake at activeloop.ai Research Links: Deep Lake Whitepaper: https://www.deeplake.ai/whitepaper Deep Lake Academic Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.10785.pdf Deep Lake GitHub Repository: https://github.com/activeloopai/deeplake Deep Lake Datasets: https://datasets.activeloop.ai/docs/ml/datasets/
Joining Jake on the podcast today is Kasia Borowska, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Brainpool AI. The duo discuss the most popular applications of AI in business, how they benefit, and the best ways to start implementing solutions. Brainpool AI is an Artificial Intelligence services company that connects a global network of over 600 AI and Machine Learning experts with corporate partners. Intelligent automation helps their clients grow efficiently, reducing operational costs and overhead. The resultant higher quality products and services greatly benefit their customers' clients. Libraries like Intel OpenVino help leverage existing models in creating solutions for business partners. Borowska finds most customers would like to avoid “reinventing the wheel” when it comes to onboarding new AI solutions. Check out their website for more information at brainpool.ai . Their LinkedIn also offers updates and industry trends.
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, VP of Technology Ecosystem at SingleStore, joins host Jake Smith in a conversation about how SingleStore's database technology (SingleStoreDB) unifies transactions and analytics to power real-time business decision-making. Karl-Heinz talks about modern business applications where companies take advantage of SingleStoreDB to bring real-time analytics and data feeds together, driving business impacts. Furthermore, Karl-Heinz shares his view of the future database structure moving towards an architecture that consolidates transactions and analytics to accelerate real-time business insights. For more information, visit: https://www.singlestore.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Yonatan Geifman, Co-Founder & CEO at Deci, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how Deci's AutoNAC (Automated Neural Architecture Construction) engine enables developers to redesign their deep learning models to significantly improve latency performance while preserving the model's accuracy. Yonatan further explained that improving latency and accuracy would allow developers to shorten the development cycle and deploy the optimized model to production environments faster. Yonatan shared with Jake the close and deep partnership Deci has developed with Intel in engineering collaboration and ecosystem programs. When asked about his thought on the future of AI, Yonatan said while it would take more time for AI to be everywhere, AI is being democratized by startups, large companies, and open-source communities, so more and more people will be able to build AI applications in the future. For more information, visit: https://deci.ai/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Mouli Narayanan, Founder and CEO at Zeblok, join Jake Smith to discuss Zeblok's Ai-MicroCloud platform and how it streamlines AI delivery by providing a single, cohesive, turnkey, cloud-native AI environment. Mouli shares Zeblok's mission and describes how the Ai-MicroCloud enables enterprises to quickly deliver AI at the edge and integrate AI solutions into mission-critical processes, faster and with lower costs. He expresses how AI deployments at the edge are becoming a main point of data origination and consumption for the enterprise today. Discussing how Zeblok is helping drive this shift and assisting enterprises with needed ISV (independent software vendor) integration to drive their edge AI deployments. Mouli also covers how collaborating with the Intel Disruptor Program has enabled Zeblok to optimize their platform for Intel technologies like OpenVINO and bring greater value to their customers. Lastly, Jake and Mouli discuss the future of AI and how artificial intelligence will drive incredible improvements in productivity in the enterprise. For more information, visit: https://www.zeblok.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Ankit Narayan Singh, Co-Founder & CTO at ParallelDots, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how artificial intelligence and image recognition are transforming the consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and retail industry operations in brick-and-mortar stores. He describes how it's a challenge for retailers to identify and replenish out-of-stock products on shelves quickly and efficiently. Ankit highlights how ParallelDots' ShelfWatch platform analyzes photos captured in stores and uses computer vision models to send real time alerts to retailers allowing them to rapidly analyze and refill any shortages on their shelves. Ankit also illustrates how ParallelDots collaborated closely with Intel leveraging Intel's ecosystem program to optimize their DL models for OpenVINO. This collaboration helped significantly increase their inference throughput performance and also enabled ParallellDots to optimize some of their models to run on CPUs avoiding the need to run on more expensive GPUs. Lastly, Jake and Ankit talk about the digitization of brick-and-mortar stores and how that process is building the stores of the future. Computer Vision and artificial intelligence are exposing more data and greater capabilities for retailers to provide better experiences to their customers while increasing efficiencies. For more information, visit: https://www.paralleldots.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Renata Morato, PO & PMO at HooBox, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how HooBox is utilizing AI and Machine Learning to better patient experiences in healthcare settings. She highlights how HooBox's SADIA platform uses AI to improve many different aspects of hospital patient care including fall risk detection, pain levels, and pressure injuries. SADIA can address all these issues with only one camera mounted on a hospital bed. Renata describes how SADIA can be an advanced technology pathway to reduce length of stay and patient's complications by democratizing AI enhanced patient care. Lastly, Jake and Renata discuss how HooBox is helping the healthcare industry move to a new standard providing closer assistance to patients, across all sorts of data, moving from reactive to predictive. For more information, visit: https://hoobox.one/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Vamshi Ambati, Founder & CEO at Predera, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how Predera is working to democratize AI by making it truly accessible to everyone with companies able to manage AI and not just build it. He highlights how Predera's AIQ platform enables enterprises to drastically cut down the challenges they face today in building, deploying and managing machine learning models. The platform makes it very simple and easy to take models into production and then manage them into the future. Vamshi talks about how Predera's collaborated with Intel to optimize their workloads for Intel oneAPI AI Analytics Toolkits resulting in improvements in both training and inference. This has also enabled Predera and their customers to leverage CPUs for most workloads reducing the need to use expensive GPUs. Lastly, Jake and Vamshi discuss how algorithmic advancements and compute advancements will drive the future of machine learning allowing AI to be impactful in many new aspects of our lives. For more information, visit: https://predera.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Lorenzo Fornaciari, Vice President of Strategy iGenius joins host Jake Smith to discuss how iGenius is reimagining data analytics and bringing it to the next level with their platform named Crystal. Lorenzo describes how Crystal, auto-classifying business requests in multiple languages, enables businesses to derive real-time insights and access key insights from their data without any training or data literacy skills needed. He highlights how iGenius worked with Intel to optimize their natural language processing and discusses the future of business analytics through the idea of the augmented consumer, a consumer that is able to use new augmented analytics technologies to easily explore and derive insights from their data. He describes how augmented non-technical data consumers represent an un-tapped user base that owns many decision making process and rely on smart business intelligence platforms like iGenius. Lastly, Lorenzo discusses how iGenius is using AI to remove the barriers between the businessperson and data in order to democratize the insights that are hidden and available in the data to boost a decision-making process for every enterprise. For more information, visit: https://www.igenius.ai/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Novan Parmonangan Simanjuntak, Head of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Strategy at GLAIR joins host Jake Smith to discuss how GLAIR worked with Intel to optimize deep learning and inference for their computer vision solution. Novan talks about how the GLAIR crowd detection system is optimized for the Intel OpenVINO toolkit and ONNX Runtime enabling GLAIR to achieve a significant improvement in throughput. He also highlights how their solution runs on CPUs, helping their clients avoid using costly GPUs for their computer vision workloads. Novan discusses how this performance optimization can also be applied to many other different workloads to benefit customer of all kinds. Lastly, he and Jake talk about how AI models in the future will be able to solve any type of problem. Novan feels that as AI is democratized, it will become more ubiquitous throughout our lives and continue to drive transformation throughout the world. For more information, visit: https://glair.ai/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Vik Anantha, Chief Product and Strategic Marketing Officer at Caresyntax joins host Jake Smith to discuss how Caresyntax's data-driven surgery platform is helping make surgeries smarter and safer. Through applying AI and analytics automation, he describes how the Caresyntax platform enables clinicians to focus only on necessary variations for a surgery and in turn optimizes the clinical, operational, and financial outcomes. Vik talks about how the Caresyntax platform can reduce unwarranted surgical variation from pre-operation to post-operation by assisting surgeons and interventionalists to make better decisions in real time utilizing important data captured during surgery. He also points out that the platform is optimized for the Intel architecture to bring performance and flexibility to their customers. Lastly, Jake and Vik talk about what the future holds for AI and how Caresyntax in collaboration with Intel is accelerating AI's ability to solve real business problems in healthcare. For more information, visit: https://caresyntax.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Anup Mehta, Co-Founder and CEO of DeepEdge, joins host Jake Smith to discuss DeepEdge's vision to enable new edge applications, bringing the power of deep learning and computer vision to the hands of the users. He chats about how DeepEdge's deep learning operations platform supports the entire machine learning lifecycle from on boarding data to deploying edge optimized models to Intel hardware. Anup talks about how the Intel OpenVINO toolkit is seamlessly integrated with the platform for model conversion, optimization, and deployment. He also illustrates how the DeepEdge platform leverages other tools from the OpenVINO toolkit including post optimization toolkit and Neural Network Compression Framework. Anup also highlights how their platform can enable customers to migrate their workloads from a GPU based infrastructure to Intel architecture-based platforms at a fraction of the cost. Lastly, Jake and Anup dive into discussing the future of AI and how it can solve many every-day problems that people face today and how AI can deliver value to everyone in the world. For more information, visit: https://deepedge.ai/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Stephen Gold, CMO of SparkCognition, joins host Jake Smith to discuss SparkCognition's vision of delivering the best AI solutions to address the critical challenges facing organizations across industries around predictive maintenance, assets management, cost efficiency, worker safety and cyber security. He discusses how SparkCognition is leveraging its robust IP portfolio to create practical AI applications to solve real world industry problems. Stephen highlights the compute power and resources that are enabled by Intel architecture accelerated AI evolution and made today's AI solutions possible. Specifically, SparkCognition's Model Studio algorithm was optimized on Intel Xeon Scalable processors and achieved up to 45x increase in performance. Jake and Stephen also discuss SparkCognition's presence in the Intel Vision conference and how the partnership helps build connections with customers in the marketplace. Stephen also shares his perspective on future of AI where he believes that AI will permeates every aspect of the business operations and seamlessly integrates into company's products and services so much so that AI simply becomes an integral part of business and life, rather than an additional category of technology. For more information, visit: https://www.sparkcognition.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
James Cho, VP of Business Development at ThunderSoft, joins host Jake Smith to discuss how Cloud and IoT accelerate digital transformation everywhere – consumer, industrial, automotive, healthcare, government, education - with almost unlimited computing power and connecting every intelligent device to the network. James talks about ThunderSoft's long-term partnership with Intel in engineering collaboration and joint venture to accelerate the digital transformation across a broad set of industry applications. He discusses how ThunderSoft's intelligent medical solution is optimized with OpenVINO on Intel platform. James highlights the Intel compute architecture and developer ecosystem as the catalyst for the strong partnership between Intel and ThunderSoft. James also shares his perspectives on the future of AI where he believes AI technology will bring positive changes to people's lives and enrich people's experiences. And that's where ThunderSoft is focused on innovating. For more information, visit: www.thundersoft.com Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Daniel Chang, CEO of ENERZAi, joins host Jake Smith to discuss ENERZAi's vision of delivering the best AI experience on everything for everyone, and how they are doing this by overcoming the constraints that edge devices have through AI models. He highlights how ENERZAi's Automated Model Compression Optimization Toolkit enables AI models to maintain high accuracy, while minimizing latency, size, power consumption for successful Edge deployment, as proven in their recent collaboration with Intel. Daniel further illuminates how their collaboration through the Intel AI Builders program optimized their state-of-the-art 3D hand pose estimation model for Intel Xeon processors achieved incredible performance results. Utilizing the Intel OpenVINO toolkit to improve the latency and inference times while not compromising the model's accuracy. This optimization project also helped pave the way for customers aiming to use ENERZAi's 3D hand pose estimation solution for their driver monitoring systems, AR/VR systems or other systems on Intel processors in an incredibly performant way. Jake and Daniel also chat about a customer use case where ENERZAi was able to help a SAAS customer migrate their solution from expensive GPU instances to more cost efficient Intel CPU instances while preserving the model accuracy. Lastly they both dive into discussing the future of AI and how it can solve the constraints that edge devices face to truly enable AI to be deployed everywhere in the world. For more information, visit: https://enerzai.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Jayachandran Ramachandran, Senior Vice President of AI Labs at Course 5 Intelligence, joins host Jake Smith to discuss the Course5 Intelligence Discovery AI augmented analytics platform. Jay highlights how Discovery allows enterprises to achieve real-time access to conversational insights and cognitive answers from their data. He talks about how Discovery uses composable and composite AI to enable enterprises to gain insights and receive AI-generated answers in seconds. Jay and Jake also discuss how Intel optimizations are driving even faster inference and higher throughput on their platform improving customer experience and time to insights for Course5's enterprise customers. Jay especially highlights how Course5 utilized Cnvrg.io to help automate and accelerate their testing and ML model creation. Jake and Jay also dive into the importance of natural language understanding (NLU) and illustrate how it enables the Discovery platform to derive causal analysis when helping enterprise customers understand their data. For more information, visit: https://www.course5i.com/course5-discovery/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Mauro Bennici, Co-Founder and CTO of You Are My Guide joins host Jake Smith to discuss Ghostwriter AI customer analysis and forecasting. Mauro talks about the journey of You Are My Guide, starting out using natural language processing (NLP) to help provide tourism services and evolving into an NLP platform called Ghostwriter AI that provides a suite of services to call centers and enterprises of all kinds. He talks about how Ghostwriter AI uses artificial intelligence to analyze audience sentiment and create predictions for marketing, social media campaigns, and other campaigns. Through their collaboration with the Intel AI Builders program, You Are My Guide has optimized their solution for Intel processors enabling a broad range of customers to deploy their AI platform without changing their hardware stack. Jake and Mauro wrap the episode discussing the future of NLP giving companies the ability to truly address the needs of their customers and provide value in real time. For more information, visit: https://ghostwriter.ai Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Nelson Lee, Head of Partnerships at Synergies joins host Jake Smith to discuss the importance of data science and AI in the manufacturing industry. Nelson talks about how Synergies works to close the gap for manufacturing organizations using outdated data and limited data science expertise in their decision-making processes. He highlights how their platform, JarviX, accomplishes this by visualizing a company's data, analyzing it, and generating insight triggered by simple queries. Nelson also talks about the deep collaboration between Synergies and Intel resulting in incredible performance improvements for their platform. Jake and Nelson wrap the episode discussing the future of AI and how it will continue to be a differentiator for businesses moving forward. For more information, visit: https://synergies.ai/index.html Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Mateus Dalponte from Axur joins host Jake Smith to talk about the importance of digital risk protection and how to mitigate the evolving world of digital fraud. Mateus discusses how Axur's Fake Social Removal and Digital Risk Protection platforms can help protect a company's reputation by constantly adapting to today's evolving fraud landscape. He also illustrates how the work Axur has done with Intel utilizing OpenVINO with ONNX for OCR model creation enabled Axur to achieve GPU level performance on Intel processors. Mateus wraps the episode talking about how Axur will continue to analyze and adapt to the future of fraud using AI to combat it. For more information, visit: https://axur.com/en/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Markus Lippus from MindTitan joins host Jake Smith to talk about how AI is innovating many industries across the world including customer service. Markus discusses how his background in biology shaped his passion for machine learning (ML) and helped drive the creation of Mind Titan. He highlights how MindTitan and Intel worked together to optimize their TitanCS solution on Intel Extension for PyTorch achieving improvements on inference performance running on Intel CPUs and driving better real-time call analysis. Markus also talks about how MindTitan's solutions are driving disruption in the telecommunications industry citing an important customer case study with Elisa Estonia AS. Jake and Markus end the episode talking about the future of AI research and development. For more information, visit: https://mindtitan.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Atif Kureishy, founder and CEO of Vistry, joins host Jake Smith to talk about deploying restaurant automation technology improve quality of service. Atif goes into detail about Vistry's Discrn platform, why the company extended Intel's edge insight for industrial software architecture to optimize workloads, and how his team uses the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO for faster insights and increased performance. For more information visit: https://www.vistry.ai Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Nico Holmberg from Silo AI joins host Jake Smith to talk about building tailored AI solutions for a variety of industries. Nico goes into detail about how Intel and Silo AI are working together on real-time computer vision for quality control in industrial manufacturing. Nico also talks about why Silo AI uses a broad number of Intel software and hardware components in order to achieve the performance and flexibility their AI lab needs to build a variety of solutions for their customers. Jake and Nico end the episode talking about the future of AI research and development. For more information, visit: https://silo.ai/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Erik Landolsi, CTO of Irisity, joins host Jake Smith to talk about using AI for video analytics. Erik talks about the challenges of connecting and processing immense amounts of video data, why Irisity anonymizes certain details based on where cameras are installed, and what the recent acquisition of AgentVi means for the future of specialized video analytics. For more information, visit: https://irisity.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Helen Kim from MaxLinear (previously NanoSemi, Inc.) joins host Jake Smith to talk about reducing compute resources to achieve target accuracies in deep neural networks. Helen goes into detail about MaxLinear's Augmented Neuron technology, which mathematically augments neural networks to reduce memory usage and latency. Jake and Helen discuss how Intel's oneDNN and other tools are making AI advancements easier for partners and how the future of 5G will impact the larger industry. For more information, visit: https://www.nanosemitech.com/benchmarks-show-maxlinears-augmented-neuron-reduces-resnet50-cost-by-2x/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
S. Venkat from Mindtree joins host Jake Smith to talk about digital customer service, specifically the company's Mindtree Cognitive Contact Center, which combines existing call center infrastructure with new technology. The two discuss how Mindtree worked with the Intel Distribution of Python along with SigOpt (a recent Intel acquisition) for hyperparameter tuning to reach necessary accuracy and performance benchmarks. For more information, visit: https://www.mindtree.com/ Follow S. Venkat on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/venkateswaran-sundareswaran-69a6363 Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Arijit Sengupta, founder and CEO of Aible, joins host Jake Smith to talk about the difference between the promise of AI and actual results. Arijit talks about helping develop BeyondCore, which was acquired by Salesforce, his book AI is a Waste of Money, the current unsustainable costs of creating complex models, and why Aible takes a “serverless-first” approach to AI. He also goes into detail about working with Intel on optimizations and benchmarking for necessary lower energy costs. Jake and Arijit close the episode discussing algorithm fairness, data privacy, and the personalized AI of the future. Follow Arijit on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/arijit_sg Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Nitin Somalaraju from Tech Mahindra joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company's Speech Analytics platform named Sayint, which uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) to uncover meaningful insights from customer conversations. Nitin talks about why regional localization and privacy issues are still challenging to overcome when deploying voicebots and how Intel technology has helped the Tech Mahindra team. For more information, visit: https://www.sayint.ai/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
James Carnall from ZeroFOX joins host Jake Smith to talk about AI-powered digital risk protection across the internet, including text, images and video, to identify threats ranging from deep fakes and fraud to potential cyberattacks. James explains why the ZeroFOX team worked directly with Intel for over a year to optimize their processes, such as improving inference performance with OpenVINO. James and Jake talk about how the rising volume of disinformation can have a negative financial impact on companies of all kinds and explain the limitations of relying on biometrics to thwart theft. For more information, visit: https://builders.intel.com/docs/aibuilders/zerofox-uses-intel-ai-technologies-to-protect-businesses-against-targeted-social-and-digital-attacks.pdf Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Jeff Boudier from Hugging Face joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company's open source machine learning transformers (also known as “pytorch-pretrained-bert”) library. Jeff talks about how transformers have accelerated the proliferation of natural language process (NLP) models and their future use in objection detection and other machine learning tasks. He goes into detail about Optimum—an open source library to train and run models on specific hardware, like Intel Xeon CPUs, and the benefits of the Intel Neural Compressor, which is designed to help deploy low-precision inference solutions. Jeff also announces Hugging Face's new Infinity solution that integrates the inference pipeline to achieve results in milliseconds wherever Docker containers can be deployed. For more information, visit: https://hf.co/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Helen Wang from Magic Data joins host Jake Smith to talk about the company's work in automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and natural language processing (NLP). Helen discusses the scalable capabilities Magic Data offers customers worldwide and goes into detail about how Intel engineers worked with Magic Data developers to optimize OpenVINO—often associated with visual processing—for the company's language processing solutions. She also talks about the benefits of MagicHub: an open-source community with over 40 datasets available in dozens of languages to assist AI developers in model training. For more information, visit: https://magichub.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Sanjay Prasad from Metaswitch (a Microsoft company) joins host Jake Smith to talk about why Metaswitch collaborates with Intel to improve network function virtualization, media transcoding, throughput and more. Sanjay talks about some of the performance gains his team has seen over the last ten years from gen-over-gen processor advancement and discusses the future communication service providers can expect, including the rise of microservices. Follow Metaswitch on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/metaswitch Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Marcin Nicpon from TietoEVRY joins host Jake Smith to talk about the latest developments in edge computing, the cloudification of services in a variety of the industries (telco, automotive, smart cities or industrial) and the benefits of open source edge solutions such as the TietoEVRY scalable edge reference platform (based on Intel Smart Edge Open (OpenNESS) architecture) to support innovation and implementing exciting use cases. For more information, visit: https://builders.intel.com/ai/solutionscatalog/tietoevry-scalable-edge-reference-platform-748 Follow TietoEVRY on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/TietoEVRY Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Soundar Rajan from Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services joins host Jake Smith to talk about software automation solutions for IT and business operations. Soundar goes into detail about Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with the company's Av3ar platform—a human-like AI+RPA platform of intelligent BoTs (or iBoTs) which can absorb, deconstruct, and use information as a human would to resolve problems. He also explains how OpenVINO is helping the company create new solutions and increase customer performance. More information available at: https://ptechnosoft.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Neil Coleman from Amdocs joins host Jake Smith to talk about why it's critical for communication service providers to move to Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN). Neil addresses some of the adoption concerns and why companies are looking to prioritize products over projects. He goes on to describe how Amdocs SmartRAN is targeted at minimizing the challenges of deploying, managing, and optimizing Open RAN networks. Follow Amdocs on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Amdocs Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
ZeroDown Software's Alan Gin and Keith Fukuhara join host Jake Smith to talk about the evolution of recovery time over the last twenty years. The three discuss how several advancements culminated in the creation of the Ultra High Availability solution, eliminating downtime and data loss. Alan talks about why he sees Intel more as a software company than a hardware company, and what this means for development projects. Keith talks about why transaction-level audits are necessary to solve business challenges. The pair discuss various use cases they've seen in the industry over the years and what the future of data center recovery time and open source technology might be. Learn more at: https://zerodownsoftware.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Paul Magdalena, Didier Marcon, and Pascale Martinez from Atos along with Goutam Debnath from Numascale join host Jake Smith to talk about their recently published white paper “Rise of Volumetric Data and Scale-Up Enterprise Computing.” The guests and Jake discuss the rise of volumetric data and the benefit of in-memory computing with scaled-up servers to meet current business trends. Read the white paper at: https://atos.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/White_paper_Atos_Numascale_Intel.pdf Follow Atos on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/atos Follow Numascale on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/NumascaleAS Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
BT Sport's Jamie Hindhaugh and Tiledmedia's Rob Koenen join host Jake Smith to talk about delivering 8K virtual reality (VR) with 360° views to sports fans on mobile devices. Jamie and Rob go into detail about the bit rates, hardware decoders, software, compute power and other components necessary to bring such high-resolution video, including customized replays, to users. Follow BT Sport on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/btsport Follow Tiledmedia on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/tiledmedia Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Taboola's Ariel Pisetzky joins host Jake Smith to talk about using artificial intelligence (AI) for personalized content recommendations at massive scale, reaching up to 4 billion web pages a day. Ariel discusses why Taboola runs their services on their own on-prem infrastructure of over 10,000 servers with Intel processors, many of which are dedicated to inferencing workloads. Ariel also goes into detail about some of the performance optimizations the company has found gen-over-gen with increased memory access. Jake and Ariel close the episode by talking about the open source community and how to respond to a crisis, like a fire breaking out inside your data center. Follow Taboola on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/taboola Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Nakul Arora from EdgeVerve (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys Ltd.) joins host Jake Smith to talk about the role AI is playing in transforming the way enterprises unlock business insights from their corpus of documents. Nakul discusses the critical role that a symphony between the software and hardware layers plays in order to deliver an improved customer experience, reduced TCO and a higher ROI for the buyers. Nakul talks about the benefits of the Intel AI Builders program and how the two companies worked together to optimally tune EdgeVerve's Nia DocAI, a document extraction, processing and comprehension solution, for the Intel AI-stack. Follow EdgeVerve (an Infosys company) on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/edge_verve Follow Nakul on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/nakulz Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
SigOpt cofounder and CEO Scott Clark joins host Jake Smith to discuss his company's recent acquisition by Intel, how this acquisition accelerates their ability to meet their mission to empower AI engineers, and the latest innovation in the SigOpt intelligent experimentation platform that enables faster design, exploration, and optimization of models. Scott goes into detail about how SigOpt software helps developers track their modeling artifacts, design experiments, explore their parameter space, and manage hyper parameter optimization (HPO). Jake and Scott close the episode by talking about the future of AI. Learn more about SigOpt at: https://sigopt.com/ Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
David Talby, CTO of John Snow Labs, joins host Jake Smith to talk about how natural language processing (NLP) is used in health care. David discusses how NLP is used for clinical decision support and trial acceleration. David goes into detail about how the company was able to increase performance using Intel processors and speaks about some of the many awards his team has won. Jake and David close the episode by talking about what the future of NLP might hold, such as more accurate diagnostic tools. Follow David on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/davidtalby Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
SHI's Tim Henning joins host Jake Smith to talk about how IT leaders were able quickly deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) via public cloud offerings to preserve business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim explains why Stratascale introduced the Intel Select Solution for VDI to address enterprise needs for scalability and security and goes into detail about the testing and collaboration between both companies. For more information, visit: https://shi.com/intel Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Intel's Tom Garrison and Camille Morhardt join host Jake Smith in a special episode to talk about today's security landscape. The three discuss Intel's approach to security from hardware to software, finding vulnerabilities, and engineering mitigations. They also talk about emerging areas, such as AI, blockchain, IoT and edge devices, and more. Tom and Camille go into detail about the future of security and the wider technology industry. Listen to Tom and Camille's security-focused podcast at: https://intel.com/cybersecurityinside Follow Tom on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/tommgarrison Follow Camille on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/morhardt Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
Ahana cofounder and CEO Steven Mih joins host Jake Smith to talk about why he started Ahana, which centers around open source data tools. Steven discusses how Presto—an open source distributed SQL query engine—was originally developed by Facebook and then donated to the Linux Foundation. Jake and Steven note how only 10-12% of data has been analyzed within most companies and explain the valuable opportunities that can arise when greater insight is unlocked from data lakes. Steven goes into detail about why Ahana works with Intel-based AWS instances to deliver faster data-driven analytics and what the future of the industry might hold. For more information, visit: https://ahana.io/intel Follow Jake on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/jakesmithintel
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