Deci and Intel look to optimise deep learning inference

The deep learning company, Deci, has announced a broad strategic business and technology collaboration with Intel to optimise deep learning inference on Intel Architecture (IA) CPUs. As one of the first companies to participate in the Intel Ignite startup accelerator, Deci will now work with Intel to deploy innovative AI technologies to mutual customers. The collaboration is intended to take a significant step towards enabling 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 datacentre cost, simply by changing the inference hardware from GPU to Intel CPU. "By optimising 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," said Deci CEO and co-founder Yonatan Geifman.