Intel hooks up with Deci for deep learning

As one of the first companies to participate in Intel Ignite startup accelerator, Deci will now work with Intel to deploy innovative AI technologies to mutual customers. The collaboration takes helps enable deep learning inference at scale on Intel CPUs, reducing costs and latency, and enabling new applications of deep learning inference. New deep learning tasks can be performed in a real-time environment on edge devices and companies that use large scale inference scenarios can dramatically cut cloud or datacenter cost, simply by changing the inference hardware from GPU to Intel CPU. "By optimizing the AI models that run on Intel's hardware, Deci enables customers to get even more speed and will allow for cost-effective and more general deep learning use cases on Intel CPUs," says Deci CEO and co-founder Yonatan Geifman. Deci and Intel's collaboration began with MLPerf where on several Intel CPUs, Deci's AutoNAC (Automated Neural Architecture Construction) technology accelerated the inference speed of the well-known ResNet-50 neural network, reducing the submitted models' latency by a factor of up to 11.8x and increasing throughput by up to 11x.