Keeping Pace In A Fast-Moving AI Space

During the Intel AI Summit earlier this month where the company demonstrated its initial processors for artificial intelligence training and inference workloads, Naveen Rao, corporate vice president and general manager of the Artificial Intelligence Products Group at Intel, spoke about the rapid pace of evolution in the AI space that also includes machine learning and deep learning. The Next Platform did an in-depth look at the technical details Rao shared about the products. But as noted in the story, Rao explained that the complexity of neural network models – when talking about the number of parameters – is growing ten-fold every year, a rate that is unlike any other technology trend we have ever seen. For Intel and the myriad other tech vendors getting making inroads into the space, AI and components like machine learning and deep learning already is a big business and promises to get bigger. Intel's AI products are expected to generate more than $3.5 billion in revenue for the chip maker this year, according to Rao.