Movidius launches a $79 deep-learning USB stick

Movidius and Intel have put deep-learning on a stick with a tiny $79 USB device that makes bringing AI to hardware a snap. In April of last year, Movidius showed off the first iteration of this device, which they then called the Fathom Neural Compute Stick. The company wasn't able to get the product out as quickly as they had hoped because they were a little busy getting acquired by Intel. Movidius's goal has long been to move this type of image-based deep learning from the cloud to the edge with its Myriad 2 visual processing unit. The chips are used on everything from security cameras and drones to AR headsets, enabling them all to recognize and identify objects in the world around them.