Amazon unveils DeepLens, a $249 camera for deep learning

Amazon Web Services today unveiled DeepLens, a wireless video camera made for the quick deployment of deep learning. The camera will cost $249 and is scheduled to ship for customers in the United States in April 2018. DeepLens comes pre-loaded with AWS Greengrass for local computation and can operate with SageMaker, a new service to simplify the deployment of AI models, as well as popular open source AI services such as TensorFlow from Google and Caffe2 from Facebook, according to an AWS blog. "DeepLens runs the model directly onto the device. The video doesn't have to go anywhere. It can be trained with SageMaker and deployed to the model," said AWS general manager of AI services Matt Wood during the keynote address today at AWS re:Invent conference being held this week in Las Vegas.