The Paradigm-Changing Effects Of AI Innovation At The Edge

Business applications, storage and data processing have all grown in power and popularity on edge devices even as their cloud and data center counterparts have continued to evolve. The latest wave is the emergence of on-device artificial intelligence (AI). Instead of relying entirely on the cloud for AI insights, a new wave of specialized algorithms and chips is delivering deep insights wherever work is done. According to ABI Research, shipments of devices with edge AI capabilities will grow fifteenfold by 2023, to 1.2 billion units. The share of AI tasks that take place on edge devices instead of in the cloud will grow more than sevenfold, from 6 percent in 2017 to 43 percent in 2023.