BeagleBone AI supercharges machine learning and computer vision on Raspberry Pi-style board

The newly revealed BeagleBone AI is a board aimed at developers interested in experimenting with machine-learning and computer vision. Unveiled this week, the computer houses four dedicated chips originally designed to help self-driving cars "see" the world around them. The board's Texas Instruments (TI) Embedded Vision Engine (EVE) chips offer up to 8x the performance per watt when running calculations for computer-vision models compared to running on an Arm Cortex A15-based CPU. This optimized hardware is accessible to developers via the TI Deep Learning OpenCL (Open Computing Language) API. Foundation say the BeagleBone AI board will be able to automate tasks in industrial, commercial and home settings.