Intel expands its AI developer toolkit

Ahead of MWC 2022, Intel has released a new version of the Intel Distribution of the OpenVINO toolkit which induces major upgrades to accelerate AI inferencing performance. Since the launch of OpenVINO in 2018, the chip giant has enabled hundreds of thousands of developers to accelerate the performance of AI inferencing beginning at the edge and extending to both enterprise and clients. This latest release includes new features built upon three-and-a-half years of developer feedback and also includes a greater selection of deep learning models, more device portability choices and higher inferencing performance with fewer code changes. VP of OpenVINO developer tools in Intel's Network and Edge Group, Adam Burns provided further insight on this latest version of the company's distribution of the OpenVINO toolkit in a press release, saying: "The latest release of OpenVINO 2022.1 builds on more than three years of learnings from hundreds of thousands of developers to simplify and automate optimizations. The latest upgrade adds hardware auto-discovery and automatic optimization, so software developers can achieve optimal performance on every platform. This software plus Intel silicon enables a significant AI ROI advantage and is deployed easily into the Intel-based solutions in your network."