With PowerAI, IBM Will Likely Accelerate Enterprise AI Trial And Adoption #SC16

While AI (artificial intelligence) has been around since the 50's, IBM was the pioneer in the latest AI cycle with their own custom solution dubbed Watson. Ever since the introduction of Watson and its ability to beat Jeopardy Champion Ken Jennings, the company has been increasing its investment in the space. IBM Watson is now an entire division of the company which indicates the importance they put on the future of AI. Watson is only one part of IBM's AI investment which I consider the "easy button" for those enterprise who don't want to create everything from scratch. IBM also has DIY (do it yourself) infrastructure for cloud providers through POWER8, OpenPOWER, OpenCAPI, designed for cloud giant rolls their own AI software. But what about enterprises who are in the middle, those who want solid infrastructure and want to invest in the latest deep neural network frameworks? IBM announced an answer this week at SC16 and it's called PowerAI.