AI start-ups huddle

AI start-ups Crossbar, Gyrfalcon Technology, Neural Networks Corporation and Robosensing are getting together to deliver an AI platform and standard for edge computing, gateways, cloud and data centers. The group, called SCAiLE (SCalable AI for Learning at the Edge), is already working with Japanese authorities to review opportunities for the 2020 Olympics, including video-based event detection and response capability. The organization will combine advanced acceleration hardware, resistive memory (ReRAM), optimized neural networks to create ready-made, power-efficient solutions with unsupervised learning and event recognition capability. The consortium addresses the restrictions of traditional AI methodologies that depend on classification of data. The huge growth of IoT systems including thousands of remote edge devices such as sensor-equipped cameras creates a torrent of unstructured information in multiple forms that pours into cloud-located servers and that cannot be handled effectively by classification alone.